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venividivici

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I just finished building my new system, however when I powered it on everything seemed fine but then I noticed as it began to detect the hardware everything seemed to slow down (went from noisy to I could hear a pin drop), and then I got the following error: Floppy disk(s) fail (40).

I googled this and haven't really found anything that I think is going to help considering it all says to check to make sure that my 3.5" floppy drive is connected properly. Problem is I do not have one so I am going to assume this is a hard drive issue.

Any help on what might cause this or what I can do that might rectify the problem is greatly appreciated.
 
Can you get into BIOS? If so, you should be able to change the motherboard settings so it doesn't think that there should be a floppy.
 
I believe I should be able to, although I know the computer after less then 1 minute shuts itself down so I am not sure if that is because of the error or something totally different.

It is frustrating and now my old system is not booting into windows, it keeps wanting to boot from CD, so I am just not happy overall, lol.

I will try getting into BIOS and see what happens.
 
Well I corrected the floppy drive problem, but now the computer still won't stay on. When I turn it on I can hear everything whirring, then the computer beeps once, goes quiet, and then it loads the hardware stuff. It then started to boot from the Windows cd and then it just powers off.

As far as I can tell I have everything connected properly. This is just getting so frustrating, I never had this much trouble on my previous build, lol.
 
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
MOBO: EVGA 680i SLI
RAMM: 2GB OCZ Special Ops Ed. PC2 6400 DDR2 800mhz
HDD: 2x SATAII WD Caviar 320GB
OPT: 2x LG GSA-H22N 18X DVD+/-RW
PSU: OCZ GameXStream 700W
VID: ATI Radeon X1800XT 512MB DDR2

So no floppy drive, which I set to none in the bios. However like I said, I hear a beep and then within less then a minute the computer will power off. The only thing I can think of is maybe I don't have something plugged in, but I just cannot see what it is.
 
does radeon video card require aditional power source(usually 6pin)?
so the error is floppy drive absent?

go to your local library and take out a floppy drive for an hour and plug it in
just to see if the error goes away.
what operating system?

I forgot whats the memory standard of your mobo
there are two 680i standards
DDR2 800
and DDR2 1200
I don't know maybe you have 1200 standard and it is a problem.

and I assume you are installing os for the first time on your system?
 
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The floppy drive error has been solved, I quickly got into BIOS and told the system there was no floppy drive as I mentioned about. The problem now is that I cannot get the computer to stay on for more than 2 minutes. I hear a beep just before the screen to show me the hardware on the computer shows up and then when it begins to boot to the Windows Installation it will completely shut down.

This is a brand new computer build that I put together last night from scratch. Once I solve this problem I will be installing Windows XP Media Centre Edition 2005.

I have the ATI Radeon card connected with the 6 pin cable that it came with and have it connected to the AUX video card connection on my motherboard. Although the PSU also have 6 pins labelled PCI-E 1 & 2, however I didn't use those so perhaps I should try that instead?

I just really want to get this system up and running.
 
so see what's the memory standard of your mobo
and search if you have memory incompatability

also your mobo manual should have error code chart which will tell
what 1 short or long beep error is.

other than that I don't know. go to sleep, wake up and double check your
connections. I connected everything by the manual. don't plug in front
audio jacks or front usb yet. or any other unnesessary connections.
 
I had forgotten to order the Arctic Silver 5 so I had to use the stuff that came with the heat sink I bought. I have the Big Typhoon, however right now I had to settle with the Intel heat sink because I have big hands and the BT would not stay in places.
 
Well it seems I fixed the problem. I took the entire build apart and then built it again. This time I noticed that the cable that came with the video card only had 3 working pins, the other 3 were empty so I connected the card directly to the PSU.

That has to be what the problem was. At the moment it is formatting the hard drive that Windows will be loaded onto. So far so good.

Thanks for all the suggestions guys, it was really appreciated and helpful. My only complaint is that the tips of my thumbs and fingers are a bit sore from the soldering on the back of the mobo when I was have a hell of a time getting the Intel HSF in.
 
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