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by bravelittletoaster 1 view

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I'm working with a Gateway 475 Desktop, all stock except for a LAN card.

When doing a clean install of WinXP Pro the computer for some reason felt like installing two floppy dis controllers. The sweet part is botrh of these controllers use the same resources and cause a conflict, because of this conflict the floppy disk drive is not recognized.

Things Tried (and didn't work):
1) Diasble 1 Controller, no avail, still a conflict

2) Uninstall one controller. Fantastic! Floppy is regonized and installed. I reboot and computer istalls new hardware, needs another reboot. Upon second reboot the second controller is back with the same problem.

3)I'd love to change the resources but all options are greyed out so I cannot change off the automatic settings. I hope there is a way to get around this.

4) Driver for controller installs from fdc.sys file in the windows/system32 folder. I renamed a text file 'fdc.sys' and moved the proper file. Rebooted and both floppy controlers still install.

5) Nothing particualr in the BIOS, The only thing I can do is diable the floppy all together, of course then no floppy controllers reinstall themselves after I unistall them.

6) I've also tried swapping out ribbons, drives, and placing the drives on differet spots on the ribbon.

Blessings to those who dare to respond!

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by csmith

Have run into this problem.
This is strictly an OS problem.
Remove both floppy drives from XP.
Disable floppy in BIOS.
"Cold Boot" at least once.
(A good idea is to back up the registry at this point.)
Enable floppy in BIOS.
It should normally install.
This does not always work, and I have had to do it several times, on some systems, before the OS got the idea.
I sympathize with you, this problem is a pain.
Regards, Chris

by bravelittletoaster

Chris,

I haven't had any luck, here is the process:
Unisntall Both Controllers, Shutdown
Restart and Enter BIOS, Disable Floppy, Shutdown
Restart into WinXP, (one controller reinstalls). Shutdown.
Restart inot BIOS, enable Floppy, Shutdown
restart inot WinXP, now both controllers are there.
Shower, Rinse, Repeat. Am I missing something?

by etatro

I had the same problem with A gateway Select 366
with windows 2000 & XP. I down loaded the newest BIOS from Gateway. Tried to install as driected
by gateway, but it woudn't load Disk error.
It turned out that the disk wasn't bootable.
I made a bootable disk loaded the BIOS update to the disk. Then I put the floppy in did a shut down.
Restated the machine it loaded the BIOS update. I shutdown it down after the BIOS was loaded.
Make sure the disk is out before restart again.

I hope this helps

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