I had some floppy cabling go on fire recently, when I plugged the molex connector on 3 pins instead of four, extremely lucky it didn't reach my video card. Needless to say the floppy was toast. I replaced the PSU and got the system running again. Today,I tried hooking up a fdd from a known good system but when I get into windows I don't have a fdd. Is my fdd controller toast?

Well, fire is never good. First, it "lets the smoke out", a rather mundane phrase which indicates that (if you are in the U.S.) you have violated several serious Federal EPA regulations concerning pollution and illegal release of toxic materials. Now that we have a "Homeland Security" department, I'm sure that "letting the smoke out" also violates several anti terrorist related laws and regulations. My advice? Don't tell anyone. Try to reinstall the smoke. Bury the remains. There have been several articles on the internet concerning reinstalling the smoke. You WILL need some rather specialized tools, and even conspiring to undertake this very process is in itself illegal, and will land you several decades in some secret prison, probably in Cuba. If you have used a known good cable and floppy drive, I'd say that your controller is "toast."

Did you check the Bios to make sure it's set up.

Hi check in your bios is fdd present & available? A or B , (a long shot) test with a win98 boot disk. failing all that & yuo need a fd, & you have usb there are external fdd available. XD @ name 'reinstall the smoke' lol did you inhale? rofl

Name , You had me rocking with laughter on reading your post. Bit of humour is good in time of trouble

Abit put their Bios settings in unusual places. They have two settings to enable floppy support. Needless to say, problem fixed. Thanks for the comments