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March 19th, 2002 11:00
Another floppy drive problem for you.
Something's wrong with my floppy drive and I couldn't reload my NIC drivers. I tried to load them from HD but it always wants the NIC driver floppy. Any ideas why the NIC driver load demands it be loaded from a floppy?
I tried to read from and write to several different floppies, but it wouldn't work. At first I thought it may have been the floppies themselves and tried to reformat them, but that also wouldn't work. When trying to format it kept indicating the floppy might not be formatable. When trying to read it indicated it couldn't find whatever I was looking for. This was with 4-6 different floppies...nawwww, don't think so.
The floppy light only comes on only when it's called upon, which by all rights looks like it's acting normal in every way, but reading the floppy when I want it to.
The strange thing is the floppy is detected by BIOS and Windows normally on startup, and acts normal when trying to access it (lights on, then off, several whirring noises), then nothing, with either using a boot disk or just trying to read any ole floppy. If it's the cable or not securely seated it shouldn't act THAT normal, should it? And if it's the drive it shouldn't even respond, should it?
I guess I could buy a cable and new drive and try each one until one works...or not.
BTW, this problem is not for my Dell...it's my other Win95 machine.
Message Edited on 03/19/02 08:23AM by jimtnc
I tried to read from and write to several different floppies, but it wouldn't work. At first I thought it may have been the floppies themselves and tried to reformat them, but that also wouldn't work. When trying to format it kept indicating the floppy might not be formatable. When trying to read it indicated it couldn't find whatever I was looking for. This was with 4-6 different floppies...nawwww, don't think so.
The floppy light only comes on only when it's called upon, which by all rights looks like it's acting normal in every way, but reading the floppy when I want it to.
The strange thing is the floppy is detected by BIOS and Windows normally on startup, and acts normal when trying to access it (lights on, then off, several whirring noises), then nothing, with either using a boot disk or just trying to read any ole floppy. If it's the cable or not securely seated it shouldn't act THAT normal, should it? And if it's the drive it shouldn't even respond, should it?
I guess I could buy a cable and new drive and try each one until one works...or not.
BTW, this problem is not for my Dell...it's my other Win95 machine.
Message Edited on 03/19/02 08:23AM by jimtnc
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JnMHayes
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March 19th, 2002 12:00
I had an old DEC P-100 with this problem. Here was the fix. Go into device manager, select the floppy drive, properties, and click Disable in this profile. This will not actually disable your drive, but force it to operate in DOS-compatibility mode. Then it should work fine.
Of course, it wouldn't hurt to pop open your case and reseat the cable. For my DEC, I even went out and bought a new drive and it was the same thing. Fortunately, they're cheap. But try the fix above first.
John
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March 19th, 2002 14:00
Hi
This site will give you info,. on floppy drives >>>
HTTP://support.dell.com/us/en/kb/document.asp?DN=FA1011087
Bev
jimtnc
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March 19th, 2002 15:00
I'm pretty sure I got hit by a power surge. All these faulty drives and controller cards on BOTH machines just don't go bad in a day or two. I'fve had very few problems up until now, but I'm sure paying my dues now. :(
Dimension 4100, PIII-866 MHz, 256MB,
Windows ME, LG 8080b(ECDC v4.5/MMJB)
Sam SD-612(WinDVD)
Pamela
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March 19th, 2002 15:00
If the new hardware you just purchased doesn't work, you may be looking at a bad floppy controller on the motherboard.Hopefully that is not case.
Pamela
jimtnc
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March 19th, 2002 15:00
that sounds too simple. Was about to go get another drive and cable, but I may wait and try that first. I assume you’re talking about making a check in “disable in this hardware profile”…right? After you disable it in device mgr, do you reboot...and will it re-enable it then...or how does that work? Dos-compatible: not sure what that does to the overall operation of the drive in windows?
Dimension 4100, PIII-866 MHz, 256MB,
Windows ME, LG 8080b(ECDC v4.5/MMJB)
Sam SD-612(WinDVD)
jimtnc
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March 19th, 2002 15:00
Dimension 4100, PIII-866 MHz, 256MB,
Windows ME, LG 8080b(ECDC v4.5/MMJB)
Sam SD-612(WinDVD)
JnMHayes
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March 20th, 2002 15:00
Any progress? To answer your question, DOS-compatibility mode does NOT hurt floppy drives because the dang things are so slow anyway. However, if it's a problem with your controller and not a driver issue, then disabling won't help.
John
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