"Conflict I/O Ports: 3F8 3F8 3F8 Floppy disks failed (40) error" tells me you have an ISA MODEM installed at COM1. You need to disable SERIAL 1 in the bios or move it.
The Floppy disk failure is cable, power not connected, cable on wrong, floppy type wrong in the BIOS or the FDC disabled in the BIOS or worst scenario a blown FDC on the motherboard.
Bob
Hi I have a K6-(tm)2/500 system, I haven't turned it on about a month, it boots up, and gives me a
Conflict I/O Ports: 3F8 3F8 3F8 Floppy disks failed (40) error, asked me to do F1 then goes ahead, I wanted to reformat a newer HD but can't go any further, older hd has windowsMe but won't load fully, I unplugged everything, booted up and gave me just a conflict port: error, I went into bios and changed different settings etc... I enable/disabled and nothing floppy disk shows up in bois, & System configurations screen, I have 5 floppies drives and old/new ribbons, but on all drives they do light up but doesn't do anything after on the system configurations screen the Serial Ports shows 3F8 & 2F8 and Parall Ports = None. I've done all I think I could, now looking for some HELP PLEASE I looked on MB for Cmos to reset the jumper I just can find it thanks in advance

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