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wont recognize floppy drive

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by tomfree99

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I just installed a new maxtor 40 gig hd as master with a 13 gig western digital as slave. upgraded to win xp and now my floppy will do nothing . took cables and new floppy to another computer and all is well when installing them on it. all bios settings are correct and floppy controller drivers have been deleted and reinstalled. everything i see says drive should be working , but it isn't.

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by allprobikes

Does the floppy drive work in DOS? Have you tried to boot the machine using a Bootdsik, such as a known working Windows 98 boot disk? This will determine if the floppy is working at the DOS level or if it is failing in Windows. If it will not boot the disk then diconect the Hard drives and try again. If it works then there is some complication with the Hard dRives attached.

If the machine will boot with the drives attaxched then the problem would be with the Windows XP instalation. Check the device manager for a problem on the floppy.
If so Delete the floppy from the devoce manager and then reboot and let Windows reinstall the floppy.

by tomfree99

tried all of above . no problem with drivers. will not boot from win 98 startup disk with hard drives disconnected. no power light on floppy drive when powering up or, any other time. i know it is getting power because if i hook cable up backwards, the light stays on all time, as it should. can only conclude floppy drive controller on motherboard is toast.

by thechas

Sounds like you have covered all the bases.

I concur with your suspicion that the floppy controller on the MB may be bad.

Did you have a different floppy drive before?

If you had not said that you tried the system with the HDDs disconnected, I might suspect that the power supply doesn't have enough capacity for everything, and that the floppy was just the most sensative to the voltage drop.

Chas

by kc 1

I agree with chase's answer what you could do is using a multimeter test the floppy controller for continuity that when you test each line(channel) one by one if there's a short you should here a beep or it should read 000.

by tomfree99

Thanks for all the input. Bought a new motherboard. All is fine now. Wow, what a fiasco !!!

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