FDC is disabled in bios, yet it still shows up in windows?!?!

[spanky]

this is wierd. i just slapped together a system. i didn't have a spare floppy for it, so i just left it out & disabled it fdc in the bios. also, under "standard cmos setup", i set "floppy drive a" to not installed. so now this should prevent windows (98 se) from detecting a floppy right? wrong. after i boot into windows, a "removable disk (a" shows up. the only drive i have installed in the hd. here is the funny part. i have another machine (same motherboard, but different OS, windows2000), in which i disabled the fdc & set floppy drive a: to not installed. when i boot into windows on that machine, only the hd & cd-rom show up. could this be an OS related issue?

 

[pdo]

Go to Device Manager and click on Computer. Does it say Advanced Configuration and Power Interface(ACPI) PC or does it say something different?

 

[stevewm]

Win9x ALWAYS assumes a floppy disk is installed REGARDLESS of the BIOS setting.

Win2k/XP however will properly detect if the floppy drive is disabled.

There is a fix for this though

Look in your BIOS for a option that says "Report NO FDD For Win95". If your BIOS has this option set it to YES. The floppy drive in Win98 will now disappear. If your BIOS does not have this option you'll just have to live with the floppy always being detected. Windows 98 is just hardcoded to act this way.