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| Posted on Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 06:52 pm: |
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I'm showing "A" and "B" floppy drives in my control panel and cannot access either one of them. (I only have one anyway.) I get "device not ready" when I click on either icon. During boot up, I get the floppy disk fail mssg. Bios is set for "A" drive to be 1.44 m, and "B" drive is set at "None". I pulled the floppy drive out, disconnected it, rebooted, re-connected it, and rebooted again, but now I get "Floopy disk fail (C0)" with the same results as above.
All of these problems started after being on the phone for 6 hours with my new DSL service, trying to get it installed (to no avail). The last changes they had me try caused my whole system to crash and started this floppy problem. I reformatted the hard drive and have everything else working again (except the DSL). (They are sending me a new modem which hopefully will cure that problem.)
Any suggestions?
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mike
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| Posted on Friday, August 23, 2002 - 01:00 am: |
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Most likely this is a hardware problem.
First try going to the Device Manager and under Disk Drives, Remove the Floppy Drives, then reboot and see if Windows finds the A and not the B drive. Before or as you are rebooting, make sure the Bios settings below are correct.
The I/O chips on the motherboard could be conflicting with a Sound Blaster Pro 16 card when used on motherboards using the VX chipset and Award BIOS, (such as the P5TVX-AT.) In such cases, you can look for I/O conflicts such as not having the BIOS setting for PnP enabled for the IRQs which the ISA based card is using. For example, if the card uses IRQ7 then the PnP setting for that IRQ should be set to ISA and NOT to PnP, ditto for any other IRQs that the card says it uses.
This is a long shot but go into BIOS Chipset Features Setup Menu, and make sure the " Onboard FDC Controller (Floppy Drive Controller)" is enabled.
The floppy drive cable might be...
a) bad or
b) reversed ( if reversed the drive light would stay on all the time)
c) if no light comes on at all, the 4-pin power cable might not be getting power (reset it or try another one)
The on-board floppy drive controller might be bad
Disabling the "floppy seek" in BIOS might allow you to temporarily go into windows.
Hope this helps
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mike
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| Posted on Friday, August 23, 2002 - 01:11 am: |
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Here is a link to some more info
http://www.pcmech.com/show/diskette/84/
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