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Disabled Floppy Disk Drive
Name: unboltingtoe Date: September 27, 2006 at 16:45:39 Pacific OS: Windows XP Professional CPU/Ram: 1.79GHZ 256MB Product: IBM NetVista Type: 6792-2
Comment:
My floppy disk drive is disabled in CMOS setup, and I can't re-enable it. It's darked out and when I click the up or down arrow, it jumps over the option to disable/re-enable it. The IDE cable is connected correctly.
I don't want to flash the BIOS unless I really have to. Having a disabled/broken floppy drive makes that a bit harder... (I'm assuming that the CMOS setup is the problem.)
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