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floppy drive problem

by peeyusharas Apr 12, 2005 7:46PM PDT

I have a P-III 933 Mhz with win XP
i have a typical problem. One day the floppy drive stopped working. I bought a new drive and it worked for 2-3 days and then again stopped working. I went and got it replaced as it was under warranty and it worked for a week and again is not working. can someone pplease let me know where the problem is?

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Any chance that the cable to the floppy

by Ray Harinec Apr 12, 2005 11:12PM PDT

is bad. Maybe a bad contact that is intermittent. Why not try going through the motions of installing the cable a few times without changing the drive, to see if you get the same problem [or just replace the cable].

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Check...

by Willy Apr 13, 2005 1:26AM PDT

With three (3)FDs going bad, it pretty much suggests the other half should be looked at. That starts with the FD cable, its power plug and then any bios reference. Check that by replacing FD cable, use another power plug, if none then use a Y-cable which splits one plug into two. The bios area once there check to see what it has then verify, etc.. Further, if you find the power plug swap fixes the problem, beware its time to replace power supply otherwise other devices could get whacked. As for the FD cable, reseat it several times, if it seems to correct with the older FD now working, replace cable regardless. If not, it could the FD port is starting to fail itself, only a FD I/O card or replace mtrbd. is going to fix that.

tadad -----Willy