Floppy Drive will not save or open files

Can someone help me put my flopy disk drive to work. I bought a motherboard with AMD 2.2GHz proccesor and my floppy drive has refused to work eversince. I have checked all the and rechecked the BIOS settings but all to no avail. There is power, it responds when the system start up. All other devices are ok. what can I do.