floppy drive in win 2k

[Motero]

i just built a computer and installed win 2k on it. after everything seems to be fine, i wanted to load on the monitor drivers, etc...and the floppy drive doesn't read or something...it just locks up. Is there something I'm missing in win2k? Something I need to check? I don't think I've used the floppy drive until now. It is detected fine...just doesn't seem to want to read. I haven't checked the cable or replaced it yet, I'll do that tomorrow...Any info is welcomed!

Thanks.

 

[Motero]

Need help here guys!

Bump.

 

[Motero]

I tried a new cable and a known working floppy drive. It still detects, Win 2k just locks up trying to use it. Could this be an IRQ conflict? If so, how can I change this?

 

[Medea]

Just checking but did you re-check your connections? You want the cable connection to your floppy drive after the twist and the other end connected to the mobo.

 

[Motero]

Yeah...I pretty much figured out that it can't be win 2k and it's prolly a bad mobo connector. Every time I put in a boot disk and reboot, it just skips over the disk and boots the hard drive. Whenever I disabled the hard drive and just left the floppy for boot, it would give me an invalid system disk error. The error isn't because I don't have a boot disk in, cause I did...and I tried other boot disks as well. Any other suggestions?

 

[Medea]

Check your BIOS settings to see if your floppy disk is the first boot.

 

[Motero]

it is.

 

[Medea]

Okay, remove the A drive thru Add/Remove Hardware, then shutoff your computer (not reboot). Wait a couple of minutes, then start up your computer - I'm assuming your HD is your second boot - and see if it's picked up and works. I had a CD-ROM drive just disappear and, for whatever reason, removing, shutting down and starting up fixed the problem (altho I believe it happened in my Win98 and not my Win2k).

If you can get your hands on another floppy drive, I'd try that too just to see if it's the mobo or the drive.

Good luck!

Edit: I re-read your third post & saw that you've already tried it with another floppy, so it may be a bad mobo connector.