Phantom Floppy Drive?

[ramirez]

I'm building a new system (A8N-E A64 3200 Venice). I've updated the bios. In "My Computer" it claims I have two floppy drives, even though I only have one. I uninstalled the second one. Npw, a couple reboots later, Windows claims "Found new hardware", and sure enough, there's that second floppy drive again!! Anyone know why this would happen?

 

[ai42]

Check your BIOS settings for the floppy it could be the BIOS is making Windows think there are two.

 

[ramirez]

Well, I checked the bios and it only reports one, soo, for some reason I think it's a windows thing. I dunno, I'm stumped!

 

[ramirez]

hmm, nevermind, it stopped showing up. that was weird...

 

[IEC]

Whoa, that's one of the strangest things I've heard! :Q

 

[Zepper]

Windows has had problems with ghost devices since Win9x. It is a basic flaw in their hardware detection routines (I wish that once you've got your hardware the way you want it, you could disable hardware detection each time you boot - just re-enable it the next time you add/remove hardware). Go into Safe Mode, go into Dev Mgr., delete ALL instances of duplicated (ghosted/phantom) devices. Reboot and let it redetect the devices.
. It used to happen all the time under Win98SE with my modem. I'd go into safemode devmgr to fix the modem and there would be an extra floppy drive, etc. I haven't had this problem since installing Win2k - but then I haven't looked at DevMgr in safe mode either. So IDK what lurks...

.bh.