I've run into this for years. It improved about the year OS/2 appeared. With that OS, you could actually format a diskette and continue to use the machine. What an advance!
"I installed XP Home on a box I built and at this point everything is going fine with the machine except "
Ahh, the joys of finding what is amiss on a new machine. I had one box like that and in exasperation tried another Windows (9
and that wouldn't install either. An install of Linux found a SCSI issue so I knew where to pinpoint my troubles.
Seems you are covering old ground here and may want to consider this.
1. No more floppy drives. At the office, these relics are rare now. We just put in CDRW and LAN connections.
2. XP doesn't like anything amiss with the hardware and won't tell you what it is. You on the other hand told NOTHING about the hardware so there isn't much to write about.
While on the surface it may seem I've glossed over your issues, I haven't. My response is to get you to write more about your problems in detail and to reconsider that the floppy drive isn't very reliable. Many will have some old drive (or even a new drive), some media that flunks or won't format it there or here and try again. The floppy is a dead and troubled item, but it still lives on.
Bob
Hi all,
Ever since I have started using XP both Pro and Home, I have notice very spotty, sluggish floppy drive performance even on different machines. I can copy files onto a floppy on one machine the go to another machine and it will not read the floppy. Also when I drag and drop either from or to the floppy drive it often take way too long to copy the file over. I also get notices telling me a certain disk is not formatted, or that the floppy can't read from the disk, all sorts of stuff.
I have noticed it on different machines with different drives XP Pro and XP Home.
Also recently I installed XP Home on a box I built and at this point everything is going fine with the machine except for one curious thing that I have never seen before.
During the boot process when it gets to the point where the boot "screen" shows, it only shows for like 2 seconds and then the screen goes blank for like 10 seconds. During this time I can tell that the machine is working its just that the screen it blank. Also, during that time, the monitor goes from being "On" with a green light showing to "engergy saving" (I assume) with an orange light showing for a couple of seconds, then the green light comes back on, and after about 10 seonds has passed, the machine continues to reboot. I have never seen this. I would assume the boot screen would normally been seen during this time that the screen is blank but it isn't....its not a huge deal as puter problems go but I suspect its something relatively small .....
Any enlightenment would be greatly appreciated!
Specs:
ASUS A7N8X
Athlon XP2700+
Mushkin PC2700 2-2-2
ASUS 9800XT

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