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Floppy drive - awful noise at close down
Hi,
I helped a friend assemble a new pc. Windows XP, with service packs 1A + 2. Motherboard is Gigabyte GA-8IG 1000MK He took it home and all was ok until he tried the floppy drive, as it would not work. I then found we had forgotten to attach the power lead to the floppy. Floppy now reads and writes works ok, but if you use the floppy during any session, when closing down the system it tries to access the floppy drive. It should not have any files open at that time but makes an awful noise trying to read a disc which is not in the drive !!!! I can only guess that forgetting to attach the power lead at the time Windows XP was loaded has caused the problem. Is the system treating the floppy as a hard disc and expects media to be present at close down??? Tried a new floppy drive and new cable but result is exactly the same. Also deleted the floppy drive and controller from hardware and that did not help. BIOS is correctly set for A drive 1.4 meg. Any ideas on what I can do to resolve ??? Thanks for any reply Mike |
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turn off AV scan of 'A' drive at shut down...
wrote in message ... Hi, I helped a friend assemble a new pc. Windows XP, with service packs 1A + 2. Motherboard is Gigabyte GA-8IG 1000MK He took it home and all was ok until he tried the floppy drive, as it would not work. I then found we had forgotten to attach the power lead to the floppy. Floppy now reads and writes works ok, but if you use the floppy during any session, when closing down the system it tries to access the floppy drive. It should not have any files open at that time but makes an awful noise trying to read a disc which is not in the drive !!!! I can only guess that forgetting to attach the power lead at the time Windows XP was loaded has caused the problem. Is the system treating the floppy as a hard disc and expects media to be present at close down??? Tried a new floppy drive and new cable but result is exactly the same. Also deleted the floppy drive and controller from hardware and that did not help. BIOS is correctly set for A drive 1.4 meg. Any ideas on what I can do to resolve ??? Thanks for any reply Mike |
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JAD,
Thanks for the reply. Will do that first thing tomorrow. Mike On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:50:00 -0700, "JAD" wrote: turn off AV scan of 'A' drive at shut down... wrote in message .. . Hi, I helped a friend assemble a new pc. Windows XP, with service packs 1A + 2. Motherboard is Gigabyte GA-8IG 1000MK He took it home and all was ok until he tried the floppy drive, as it would not work. I then found we had forgotten to attach the power lead to the floppy. Floppy now reads and writes works ok, but if you use the floppy during any session, when closing down the system it tries to access the floppy drive. It should not have any files open at that time but makes an awful noise trying to read a disc which is not in the drive !!!! I can only guess that forgetting to attach the power lead at the time Windows XP was loaded has caused the problem. Is the system treating the floppy as a hard disc and expects media to be present at close down??? Tried a new floppy drive and new cable but result is exactly the same. Also deleted the floppy drive and controller from hardware and that did not help. BIOS is correctly set for A drive 1.4 meg. Any ideas on what I can do to resolve ??? Thanks for any reply Mike |
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