Why doesn't my floppy drive work?

[Yzzim]

This has been happening ever since I got the motherboard about a year ago. I put the floppy drive in the computer and I'm 1000000000000000% postive the cable is the right way.
When I put a disk in the drive and try to open it in Windows, it says that there's an error on the disk, but when I take the disk to the other computer it is fine.
Even when I'm not in Windows and I'm trying to use a bootdisk during startup, the disk won't work until I change the floppy cable out. Doesn't matter which floppy cable I put in, I still have to change it when I try to use a bootdisk.
Also, I've tried this on 2 floppy drives and it does the same exact thing.

Motherboard is an Epox 8K7A updated with the latest BIOS (the last time I checked about a month ago).

 

[Adul]

bad floppy controller on mb?

 

[Yzzim]

that's what I'm thinking too 🙁

 

[Yzzim]

anyone else want to help?

 

[StattlichPassat]

Who cares? Buy a new Sony for 8 bucks on NewEgg.com 😀

 

[teknodude]

Originally posted by: NightFlyerGTI
Who cares? Buy a new Sony for 8 bucks on NewEgg.com 😀

Yeah, really clever NightFlyerGTI 😛 As Adul said, it's most likely a bad floppy controller on the mobo. Hardly an $8 Sony job from NewEgg!

teknodude

 

[xpr8]

Originally posted by: NightFlyerGTI
Who cares? Buy a new Sony for 8 bucks on NewEgg.com 😀

He is right, try the smaller thing *before* going out and buying a new MB or controller.

 

[Spikesoldier]

get a usb floppy drive?

 

[Spikesoldier]

Originally posted by: xpr8

Originally posted by: NightFlyerGTI
Who cares? Buy a new Sony for 8 bucks on NewEgg.com 😀

He is right, try the smaller thing *before* going out and buying a new MB or controller.

most floppy controllers on modern motherboards are onboard, and would be very difficult to near impossible to replace one - it is not something you can go out and stick in your pc. although there are controller cards taht would let you run your hard drives at faster speeds than what your IDE channels on board can offer you.

 

[Yzzim]

Originally posted by: xpr8

Originally posted by: NightFlyerGTI
Who cares? Buy a new Sony for 8 bucks on NewEgg.com 😀

He is right, try the smaller thing *before* going out and buying a new MB or controller.

As I said in the original post, I've already tried 2 different floppies drives (both of which are known to work) and it didn't help.

 

[Yzzim]

Originally posted by: Spikesoldier
get a usb floppy drive?

Will that work in DOS while trying to format my hard drive and reinstall Windows?
Seems like a good alternative, but it needs to work in dos.