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Inconsistent Floppy Drive Access

Jan 14, 2005 9:15AM PST

After installing XP, my floppy drive doesnt work consistently. I've got a 120G WD HD; 52x CDRom and 4x DVD burner installed on a P3 Motherboard running a 900 Celeron (clocked to 1000) and 512Mg RAM. Running Windows SP with Service Pack 2 upgrade. Problem is that it works for about 1 or 2 file transfers before locking up the system.

This problem existed before I changed the CPU speed from 900 to 1000MHz and doesnt resolve when I've swapped back to 900.

I've swapped the drive and cable for other working components and have stripped the system down to HD and floppy only, both without any improvement in the situation.

Problem also existed before upgrading to the 120G WD drive from a 60G WD drive (similar configurations with the drive ie 8M caches in both).

I've checked for conflicts but cannot find any conflict in the memory allocations, although cannot say that I feel confident that I'd spot a conflict due to my low knowlege of memory allocations - can someone advise if these allocations are appropriate please:
Floppy drive: $000003F0-3F5 & 3F7-3F7
Primary IDE: 1F0-1F7 & 3F6-3F6
Secondary IDE: 170-177 & 376-376?

I've also tried pre & post Service Pack 2 installations without any change. The floppy worked without any problems under Win98 SE.

Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.

Millie4me

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