FDD issues

[dswesse]

Ok, over Christmas I upgraded to a Athlon64 system. I have the MSI K8N Neo2 Plat mobo and a 3200 proc. What I can't figure out is what's going on with my floppy drive. I hadn't needed to use it until now, but windows cannot find it. I know I used the drive during the install to put the RAID drivers on here, but now it doesn't seem to work. I even went so far as to unplug every single device and balance out the power load across all of my ps cables and also reconnected the fdd cables. Initially I had the fdd cables backwards which caused the activity led to stay on constantly, and it was not recognized by windows. Now after flipping the cable thus having it installed correctly, windows still will not recognize it. Any ideas on what may be wrong and what if anything I can do to fix it?

 

[otispunkmeyer]

a floppy drive is what ? £10 maybe less, jus pick up a new one, if it still doesnt work then its no big loss

 

[dswesse]

I swapped the cables out and same issue, unless anyone can give me a hint as to another cause, I guess I'll swap out the fdd and see if that changes anything. But still, the drive is a little over a year and a half old, so I wouldn't expect it to crap out on me yet.

 

[Zepper]

If you managed to put the cable on upside down, you may have bent a pin or if your cable has a pin-block for a key on the drive end, you may have pushed one of the signal pins back into the housing. There was a guy here that managed to do that to a hard drive and was able to fish it back out with a pair of needle nose pliers.

..bh.

 

[montag451]

also check that the bios is configured for your floppy

 

[thirdlegstump]

make installed drive

 

[dunkster]

The Nvidia IDE driver may be the culprit.

In my case, the Nvidia IDE/ATAPI driver from the Nvidia 5.10 driver set wouldn't allow install of two optical drives. No combination of master/slave device config would work.

The solution was to simply roll back the IDE/ATAPI driver to the standard Windows IDE/ATAPI driver.

Hope this helps!

 

[JimPhelpsMI]

Hi, When you plug the cable to the floppy backwards no damage is done to the drive. However, if there was a disk in the floppy it gets blown. I wont read and if it was a boot disk it will not boot. Is it possible that you are using the same disk? Jim

 

[dswesse]

No, it's not just the issue of a disk, the os literally does not see the drive there at all

 

[Blazer]

just order a new and replace the floppy,they die ! no big deal

 

[dswesse]

ok, the floppy drive is less than a year old and from a reputable manufacture, and it was just working 3 weeks ago. If you're just going to tell me to buy a new one, don't make the post. I do not piss money away just because I don't know what's wrong with something. I don't care if it is only 15 dollars. Why would I spend 15 dollars on something that may not even be the issue? How about I start going around and posting to every other thread that asks for help and just say "buy a new one".

Oh, your computer is slow....Buy a new one
Oh, you've got a virus....Better buy a new computer

Any useful advice is welcomed, the rest you can keep to yourself

 

[tiap]

ok, the floppy drive is less than a year old and from a reputable manufacture, and it was just working 3 weeks ago

To test your precious drive.
Take a known "good" drive from another box and test in your box.
Then,
Take your drive and test in another "good" box.
This will show if your drive is good or if your box, bios, setup is good or not.
You can test further from there.
No guesswork.