Big buck hunter pro "diskette drive 0 seek failure"?

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Big buck hunter pro "diskette drive 0 seek failure"?

I have a bug buck hunter pro that just had a replacement computer installed(Dell) and I get this message when I turn it on. When I press F1 to continue, it tried to load but just stayed on the loading screen, any ideas on what I can do to fix this?

Thanks
 
If you go into the setup, it is looking for a floppy drive that isn't there? Go into the CMOS settings when it is booting up (probably F1 for setup) and if it is looking for a floppy change it.

If that is the problem and it doesn't "keep" then it might mean you need to replace the CMOS battery on the motherboard. It would be one of those coin batteries most likely.
 
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Lots of talk on this one dell forum about this cropping up after the watch battery was removed and original settings got replaced.

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/disk-drives/f/3534/t/19125045.aspx

I know, though -- that you've gone to the CMOS settings and disabled the floppy everywhere you could, and also removed it from the boot order.

Since, those haven't seemed to work, I talked to a friend of mine at that used to work for Dell this evening after we talked on this and he said some of the dimension desktops sold on the secondary market have a CR2032 CMOS watch battery but had a BR2325 from factory.

I call shenanigans on what he said, though the CR2032 virtually identical to the BR2325 but the CR2032 has a deeper mah rating -- a little under 100 mah more capacity but both are 3v.

To me, if it were the battery, you would surely still be getting that Low Voltage Warning from the BIOS at POST. Maybe a good $2 thing to try though.

I haven't read through all these but there may be an answer in this:
The first thread sounded similar..

http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?c=us&cat=cmu&k=Floppy+diskette+seek+failure&l=en&s=gen&~tab=cmu
 
I changed the settings so it won't look for the floppy drive, I saved and rebooted the game and still get the same message, am I not doing something right? The coin battery is brand new.
 
Are you sure you disabled the floppy drive device and didn't just disable it from boot options?
 
Not sure which dell you got, but you have to go to drives, diskette drives and turn it to off.

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OR

Change Diskette Drive A: to OFF

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I got it to where it's not looking for the disk drive, now when I turn it on it gets to the "loading please wait" screen but won't go any further, any ideas?
 
I got it to where it's not looking for the disk drive, now when I turn it on it gets to the "loading please wait" screen but won't go any further, any ideas?

FYI, Raw Thrills recommends that you set the diskette drive to "USB." Dont know why but thats what they said to do with it.

Loading please wait could be a lot of things. Usually it will pop up with another error like "connect I/O board" or "install Security key" but if those dont show up you can press the tilde key on a connected keyboard to see where its stuck. If its just plain crapped out then you may need to reload software (if you dont have the disks LMK and I'll burn you a copy).

BTW, did it EVER work since you got it back? If the computer has the wrong video card installed (assuming it has one) it will get stuck at the screen you mentioned.

I'm attaching the BIOS setting for the Dell OptiPlex740 with the 2.1.8 BIOS.
 

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Thanks for the reply, I got the game and the computer was dead and it said "no signal" on the screen. I will try to set the drive to "USB" and see what happens, I do not have the disks for that game, but since I have another computer in it, I may need them. What will you charge me to make me a set?

Thanks,

David
 
I'll just charge you shipping. Should be much from Dallas to you. What dongle do you have? Pro, Safari, Open Season, World?

I know you said Pro in your OP but I wanted to make sure. PM me the info and your address.
 
Back working on this Big buck Hunter Pro and I have tried to disable the diskette drive and even tried it with the USB enabled and I still get the same "loading please wait" message and that's is far as it boots up. So I may actually need the the disks to reboot the system, I will PM you my address for those, thanks!
 
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