More flpooy info

While I truly appreciate all the help, I'm still at a quandry as to why
after installing a floppy drive into the system having all the trouble, then
removing it and installing it into a good system I now encounter the drive
as bad. I hope I'm explaining this correctly.

The system I'm attempting to build is: FIC AU13 motherboard with an AMD
XP3200 processor, 512 mb PC3200 RAM(all this was supposedly "tested" before
shipping!) the board has onboard sound & Lan. The vid card I currently have
to use due to budget constraints is a Nvidia Geforce4 440MX 64 mb AGP. I
also want to override the onboard sound with a SoundBlaster Live PCI. This
is all run with a Codegen 350W power supply. Now, this is the system having
all the trouble, I have a new motherboard coming from the dealer on Monday,
but as I said, whenever I install a floppy drive, regardless of the brand,
it does not work. All I get is errors on bootup regarding the floppy
failure. I installed 3 known good drives and in fact pulled a good drive
from the old system I'm using right now to post this message. After
receiving yet another floppy failure message, I placed that drive BACK into
the machine it originally came from.that's when I started worrying because
now the drive failed on the machine it came from! So, again, what would
cause damage (?) to drives installed on the new machine?

I hope I made the problem somewhat clearer!

Thank you all again, great advice and always, always appreciated!

Gerry
gwolf.DeleteThis@wi.rr.com

Hey, Gerry.

Hmmm, that is odd. Maybe the floppy cable is causing the errors?

--Alex


Gerry Wolf wrote:

 >While I truly appreciate all the help, I'm still at a quandry as to why
 >after installing a floppy drive into the system having all the trouble, then
 >removing it and installing it into a good system I now encounter the drive
 >as bad. I hope I'm explaining this correctly.
 >
 >The system I'm attempting to build is: FIC AU13 motherboard with an AMD
 >XP3200 processor, 512 mb PC3200 RAM(all this was supposedly "tested" before
 >shipping!) the board has onboard sound & Lan. The vid card I currently have
 >to use due to budget constraints is a Nvidia Geforce4 440MX 64 mb AGP. I
 >also want to override the onboard sound with a SoundBlaster Live PCI. This
 >is all run with a Codegen 350W power supply. Now, this is the system having
 >all the trouble, I have a new motherboard coming from the dealer on Monday,
 >but as I said, whenever I install a floppy drive, regardless of the brand,
 >it does not work. All I get is errors on bootup regarding the floppy
 >failure. I installed 3 known good drives and in fact pulled a good drive
 >from the old system I'm using right now to post this message. After
 >receiving yet another floppy failure message, I placed that drive BACK into
 >the machine it originally came from.that's when I started worrying because
 >now the drive failed on the machine it came from! So, again, what would
 >cause damage (?) to drives installed on the new machine?
 >
 >I hope I made the problem somewhat clearer!
 >
 >Thank you all again, great advice and always, always appreciated!
 >
 >Gerry
 >gwolf@wi.rr.com
 >
 >
 >
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