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I have an older computer with an ASUS SP97-V motherboard and AMD-2 500MHz processor. The floppy drive I had I removed to use in my son's computer. It works fine. I decided to get a used floppy drive for my computer. The floppy drive I got doesn't work. I replaced the ribbon cable with no luck. I had my friend check out the floppy drive and he said it worked fine. The floppy drive shows up under My Computer. When I put a disk in and double click, I get a message that the disk won't work because of an I/O error.
Is the cable connected correctly at both ends?
Normally the cable has two connectors, the A: drive is the end connector (B: is the middle).
Check for bent pins.Sorry, I do not check for private messages
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Just to double check the situation ask yourself these questions about the computer giving trouble with the floppy drive:
-If I was to put a Dos Bootable Floppy Disk into the drive having the BIOS set to boot from the floppy drive, would that work?
-Does the BIOS know the floppy drive is there and it is correctly configured?
-Did I hook the ribbion cable up to the right part of the motherboard and are the pins matched up correctly? I need to remember that pin 1 has the red like line by it.If you can notice no problems with these things in the above then the problem is most likely with Windows understanding the floppy drive, but it sounds like to me that the floppy drive is hooked up wrong since your friend said it worked fine.
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It's either cabled in backwards, it is dead, or there are other hardware conflicts preventing it from correctly functioning.
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I have tried all the suggestions regarding the physical hookups. Thanks for taking the time to respond. I went into device manager and looked at the I/O assignments. I'm not complete yet but I noticed that the assignment for the floppy disk controller was 03F2-03F5 skipping 03F6 then 03F7. When I looked at the assignment for the IDE Primary Controller it was assigned 03F6 which is supposed to be reserved for the flpppy contoller.
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What do you see in device manager? Any conflicts?
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What do you see in device manager? Any conflicts?
You can avoid many of these Windows problems with Linux. Linspire eases the transition for new users
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GXI Man I don't have any direct conflicts. However, it seems strange that an I/O setting that is supposed to be reserved for my floppy drive is located under my IDE Primary Controller
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You really need to boot from a floppy bootdisk to ascertain if the problem is in windows or is a hardware problem. If it boots OK then it's a windows problem. If not, it's a hardware problem. Make sure you use a good bootdisk. A bad drive can wreck a good bootdisk. Then using that same bootdisk in a good drive may lead you to believe the drive is bad.
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Thanks for your help. I'm going to set this one aside because I don't have anymore options.
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