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No access from floppy drive

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by dkwaczala

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I have been having problems with my floppy drive. I cannot access any floppy disks when they are in the drive. I have replaced the floppy drive with a known good one and still the same problem. If the floppy controller on the motherboard is bad is there a fix or must I change the motherboard to correct this problem

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by thechas

I haven't looked lately, but you used to be able to get plug-in cards with IDE floppy interfaces on them.
I have seen used ISA bus cards.

Before you give up an the motherboard though, have you tried the following;

Update / re-install the motherboard / chipset drivers.

Make sure in device manager / performance / floppy that the box is checked to search for new floppy drives at boot.
Also, make sure that the switch in BIOS settings is set to report new drives to windows.

Then, delete the floppy drive, and it's controller from device manager, and allow windows to re-install them on re-boot.

Chas

Oh, make sure that the mode for the floppy drive is set correctly in BIOS settings.

by alpha-male

I know this is an incredibly simplistic answer and you've probably already tested this, but don't forget to check your floppy cable. Make sure it is good and secured properly.

Good luck!

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