Someone brought a machine to me, & now I'm stumped: Upon boot: Diskette drive 0 seek failure <the machine has no Floppy Disk> press F1 to continue <boots to win10> dev mgr shows 2 entries floppy disk drive & floppy disk controller <deleted both & reinstalled nxt boot> Award BIOS ver. 1.0.15 date 6/23/2008 <Dell svc tag 1SDX2F1, shows BIOS 1.0.15 last update 2011> I would believe these ar the same bios, via having same version, do they update bios & keep same version? In BIOS "Boot Device Config" Removable device priority (top of list) press enter 1. Floppy disks <nothing works here bios keys + - or left right arrow, floppy disk highlighted in red Back to "Boot Dev Config Removable Device Priority <expanded shows floppy disk, highlighted red> Hard disk Priority First boot dev (cd rom) Second boot dev (hdd) Third boot dev (cd rom) Boot other dev (disabled) boot menu security (disabled) CMOS battery date & time OK. Friend requesting help said previously problem did not occur (F1 to continue to windows) then after Win10 update, problem occurred. I thought CMOS battery, seems fine, may have caused the problem I thought re flashing BIOS, would help, but as ver. are same Dell support & machine both 1.0.15 but diff dates. This machine 32 bit 2048mem, IMO should not be running win 10, better win 7 Any thoughts on removing on boot diskette drive 0 seek error, F1 to continue. Also I thought using right left arrow key, I could lower on the list "Removable Device Priority" those key do nothing.
