Auto-detecting Pri Master...Not Detected. Help?
After I boot-up, the following appears:
Auto-detecting Pri Master ... Not Detected
Auto-detecting Pri Slave ... Not Detected
Auto-detecting Sec Master ... [press ESC to abort] Not Detected
Auto-detecting Sec Slave ... [press ESC to abort] Not Detected
Afterwards, it proceeds to trying to boot from floppy but it cannot.
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Check all your cables and make sure they are in the right place on your motherboard, then check and make sure they are all getting power from the power supply, if you are still getting that message you have some kinda hardware issue
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Check that the cables are connected properly.
The drive(s)may have failed.