Problems accessing floppy drive?

[andyjz]

When I put a floppy disk in the drive and then try accessing it the computer shuts down and reboots on it's own. I figured it had to be either the drive itself or the power supply so I swaped both. It still does the same thing and I am completely boggled by what could be causing it. Could someone send me in the right direction.

Thanks

 

[minendo]

What OS?

 

[andyjz]

I had the problem initially running win98 but in trying to fix the problem installed winXP which is the current os.

 

[minendo]

Try this and see if it makes any difference. The steps I list should be the same, but I am doing this through win2k so they might be a little different.

Right click My Computer ---> Properties ----> Advanced ---> Startup and Recovery ---> Uncheck Automatically Reboot --> Apply the settings and try opening the floppy

 

[andyjz]

I just tried that minendo and it still killed the computer but instead of rebooting it went to a blue screen telling me there was an error and to remove any newly installed HW componenants, which I don't have any of. Do you (or anyone else) have any other suggestions for what could be causing this problems or ways of fixing it?

 

[minendo]

Did you try changing the cable?

 

[DaiShan]

/edit

have you tried the latest via 4 in 1's?

 

[andyjz]

I think that might have worked minendo! Thanks. I'll have to use the drive a little bit to make sure but I opened a word document from a disk with no problmes. What could cause a cable to go bad just sitting in the computer? Maybe it just got bumped and wasn't making a good connection to the MB.