Aria Won't Read Microdrive

[RedWolf]

I have an Antec Aria that is having trouble with my IBM Microdrive. Every time I put in the microdrive, all of my removable drives go blank. I have tried the microdrive in my Emachines 6805 (works fine), an external card reader connected to the Aria (works fine), and tried the microdrive on some other readers at work. All of them but the Aria's built in card reader work fine. I can use the Aria's reader for other compact flash cards (tried 2 different ones) as well as sd cards and smartmedia cards. The reader works fine until I put in the microdrive. Then, it stops showing up in Windows and acts like the whole reader was disconnected (makes the sound for disconnecting usb devices).

Sometimes it will come back after restarting the pc, sometimes I have to cold boot, and sometimes I have to remove the power cord.

I have in the aria:

9600 NP
Samsung 160gb SATA drive
Lite-On DVD+RW
Biostar P4m 266A motherboard

I have switched the usb connections that the reader uses and it doesn't seem to help.

Anyone have any ideas what could be causing this or what things I can try? I haven't upgraded the bios yet because I don't have a usb floppy.

 

[roninmagik1]

Hey, don't know too much that could help your problem, but it might interest you to know that office max, is having a sale on a usb floppy, i think after rebates, it comes out to 10 bucks.

 

[akira34]

You mean you can't update your bios from within windows??? Wow... I've done that on Giga-Byte mobo's for years, as well as MSI boards for the past 6-12 months (as long as I've been using MSI boards).

I also have an Aria for my current server. I'm about to reconfigure it for my cousin so that she has a computer. I'll be building a new server in the coming weeks (before turkey day) and intend to use another Aria case for that one too. I like the support for three hard drives more than the need for a floppy or more than one optical drive. I'll probably use a small IDE drive for the OS and then just get a pair of SATA drive for storage... Of course, it might be cheaper to just increase the storage inside my tower and use that... too many decisions need to be made about that....

 

[RedWolf]

Originally posted by: akira34
You mean you can't update your bios from within windows??? Wow... I've done that on Giga-Byte mobo's for years, as well as MSI boards for the past 6-12 months (as long as I've been using MSI boards).

Nope. I can't. I can use the biostar overclocking utility, though. It is useful for having a little duck walk back and forth or for crashing Windows (by overclocking).

Thanks for the tip on the USB floppy. I may pick one up.