Category: Geeks r Us
A few days ago, I had gone to a website for a radio station that is run by a friend of mine. After doing a few things on the site, I shut off my desktop to go do something else. When I came back and turned the computer on, I got two short beeps from my tower after about five seconds. According to my grandmother, the following message was on my screen, "Seek floppy disk drive failure. Press f1 to continue. Press f2 to enter the set up utility." After pressing f1, windows started as normal. and everything seemed to work fine for a few days. At first, I figured that it was a fluke, because the computer shut down and turned on with no issues. However, I shut my computer down tonight, and turned it back on, getting the same message. Pressing f1 started windows. What could be the source of this odd behavior and are there any fixes for it?
you need to get into your bios and change the boot order, because it sounds like your system is sometimes trying to boot from the floppy drive and not your actual c drive. you'll need sited help for this. if you are unsure on what all you need to do to get this to work I would say take it to best buy or something and see what they can do and hope you don't get charged an armand a leg for it, otherwise, I wouldn't worry about it too much considering with todays standards in pc's floppys are pretty much a thing in the past
Correct. Its an old machine if it has a floppy actually. I'd start to look in to upgrading soon.
BestBuy has some wonderful refurbished systems for 150 to 300 dollars. You get on some even longer warrentees then new.
Yup it's best to upgrade
I'm curious, how the hell is that thing running windows 10 or is it even running windows 10 at all? I didn't think machines that old could run it, or if it could I figured it would be extremely sluggish to the point of damn near unusable.
Poster never said that, and that's another point. If it runs say Windows 7, it might be simply time to reset Windows.
Or never update anything and let security vulnerabilities spread into the wild. We all make choices ay?
No. Sometimes Windows changes due to updating, programs added and removed and such.
It just needs a refresher now and again.
You repair it, or reinstall it.
I'm running windows seven. The last repairs I had one it a few months ago were to replace bad ram and replace a failing hard dirve. It runs windows seven with no issues, no slowing down. Harddrive is 800 gigs, and ram is 4 gigs.
Then that was what caused the issue.
When it was repaired, they probably used the floppy to boot.
It is difficult to explain how to fix it. You'll need the person to help you, because once you are doing Windows 7 it won't talk.
If you have the disk for Windows you can ask your Gran mother to try this.
You put the disk in the CD drive.
Restart the computer.
When it comes back you choose repair.
This isn't a big issue, but will require seeing help.
As posted, if it doesn't bother you over much, forget it and when it happens just do as you do.
Can I continue to use the desktop while I wait for somebody to come out to my house and fix whatever is going on?
yeah, there is nothing stopping you from doing so. all it is is just your system is trying to boot from your floppy drive sometimes and not your c drive. I really wouldn't worry about this
Sometimes, you can get the press F1 to continue if you have a bad CMOS battery. These batteries, located on the Motherboard of your computer, periodically need replacing. The purpose of them is for date and time I believe, but, could be wrong. Surprised no one mentioned this as a second source that might be an issue. Though, it is most likely not the problem, since the computer did not show "Battery low" or "Low voltage" on your screen. HTH.