Floppy Drive problem

[fourtwenty1]

Hi, I'm having a problem with 2 floppy drives.

I upgraded my little brothers computer from a cyrix 233 to a Duron 700 for christmas and then took the leftover parts from his old computer and upgraded my Moms 486 to the 233. The floppy drive in the new computer (Duron 700) worked fine at the time it was installed. I needed to get some drivers for the cyrix system so I went on the net on my bro's computer, found the drivers and put them on a floppy to transfer them to the cyrix system. The floppy in the cyrix system wouldn't work so I thought maybe it was damaged and put the other floppy drive from the Duron system in the cyrix system to see if that was the problem. It didn't work either and now it won't work in the Duron system either. Both computers will recognize each drive and even tell me how much space is used/available on a floppy when inserted but it won't allow me to browse the disk or write to it.

To sum up, the cyrix system's floppy wouldn't work so I put in the one from the Duron system and now neither floppy will work in either machine. Does anyone have any suggestions on what may be wrong?

I'm going to get a brand new floppy after work today, but I don't think the problem is with the hardware itself.

Thanks

 

[Oyeve]

Have you tried using another diskette? Maybe the one you are testing with is bad.

 

[fourtwenty1]

Ya, I've tried several different diskettes with no luck.

 

[vancur]

Amongst all of your floppy swapping, is it possible you're not connecting the drive correctly? Either the power cable (is the green light always on?) or the IDE cable (is the correct end of the floppy cable connected to the drive?). If thats not it, does it work in dos and win?

 

[fourtwenty1]

Originally on the cyrix system I did have it connected incorrectly so I thought maybe that I could have fried one of the drives, but since then I have been connecting it all correctly and I have tried several different FDD cables and power connections. Is there any possible way to screw FDD's up in the bios? I don't have the manual for the cyrix's mobo so I have no idea where the bios reset jumper is. I will try reseting the bios on the MSI board when I get home and see if that might fix anything.

Both systems will recognize the floppy drive but won't let me access any floppy that is inserted. Neither will work in DOS or windows.

I even tried reinstalling Win98 on the Cyrix machine but it didn't change anything.

 

[fourtwenty1]

anyone else have any ideas?

 

[dkozloski]

Make sure you have it selected as the right kind of floppy drive in BIOS. 3 1/2 vs. 5 1/4 and A instead of B.