Adding a Zip and Floppy? Is it this hard?

[crisp82]

Hey Ppl,

My bro asked me to insatll a zip drive and floppy drive on his computer, so I set to it. The problem is that his power supply has only 1 4 pin floppy connection, which is already taken up by his SoundBlaster Live! Drive. So I took the 4 pin floppy connection off of an old power supply and wired it to the existing one. I plugged the zip drive and floppy drive in and the computer booted, motherboard POSTed, and it found and recognised the zip drive, then it booted Windows 98 as normal, but when it came to logging it I copuld get as far as typing 2 letter on the keyboard before it was stop working. Mouse to. I Removed the Floppy - same problem, I removed the Zip and put Floppy back on - booted, but floppy wouldn't read.

I'm pretty sure it's a 300W PSU on an Asus K75sa (not correct name, but very similar). The PSU currently is connect to 1 hard drive, 1 CD drive, 1 SoundBlaster Live! drive, 1 CPU fan, and another fan that I bodged on in much the same way as above.

All cards are seated, all connections ok.

Does he need a better PSU, or an electrician?!

Thanks guys

 

[KF]

>but when it came to logging it I could get as far as typing 2 letter on the keyboard before it was stop working. Mouse to.
Enable the floppy in the BIOS.

If they exist, and you don't have a tape drive, delete these drivers from C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS

drvwppqt.vxd
drvwq117.vxd

They operate off the floppy drive controller.

Boot Window in safe mode. In Device Manager, delete any floppy disks, floppy disk controllers, and tape drive controllers you find.

Reboot. Have Windows detect any new devices if it doesn't do it automatically.

>The problem is that his power supply has only 1 4 pin floppy connection, which is already taken up by his SoundBlaster Live! Drive.

What is this, a CD-ROM? I didn't know anything else used the little power connector.

I don't think the PS is a problem for the floppy. Will the POST do a seek on the floppy when you enable this.