Peter Hutchison
April 20th 03, 04:04 PM
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 11:33:11 -0700, >
wrote:
>my floppy drive is still not working.displays error
>message "A: not accessible, no id address mark found on
>floppy". none of the floppy disks work.tried deleting
>controller and floppy from device manager but its still
>buggered
From Tue Nov 19 09:39:31 2002
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Subject: Re: Floppy drive can't read the disks
From: Preferred Customer >
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 04:39:31 -0500
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:42:35 +0100, "Sudarwan Djojonegoro"
> wrote:
>I have built a new computer and use XP Home operating system. Each one I
>can't get the floppy drives to read disks. The disk errors are either,
>format the disk or insert disk. I have tried new floppy drive, mucking with
>the cables and checking CMOS settings etc but I am getting really
>frustrated!
>
>Can anybody please help me?
>
>
>
ATTENTION all those having floppy drive problems with XP - I found
what I think causes it.
I, like many others, have been unable to use the floppy drive ever
since I upgraded to XP SP-1. I could use it fine with the original
version. I decided to do a test. I did a fresh install of the
original XP. The floppy worked fine with no problems. I then updated
the OS to SP-1, still no problems. The only thing that I noticed was
that the SMBUS Controller driver needed to be installed. I remebered
that this was an Intel controller (I have the Gigabyte GA-8IHXP
motherboard with Intel 850E chipset). I downloaded and installed the
latest Intel Chipset Driver installation program, rebooted, and the
SMBUS Controller was now installed correctly. I tried the floppy
drive and it DIDN'T work. Go figure. I did a system restore back to
the XP SP-1 update and after rebooting I checked the SMBUS Controller
and it was installed correctly. I checked the floppy drive and also
no problems. I assume from this that if the Intel Chipset Install
utility is used, then it causes this problem with the floppy drive. I
did a fresh install of Windows XP SP-1 by itself and my floppy didn't
work. I guess the only way to resolve the problem is to install the
original version, then update to SP-1, and don't install the Intel
driver
OR, MAYBE (like what I did)
install the original version, then update to SP-1, and install the
Intel driver, then restore to the SP-1 update so that the SM BUS will
load correctly.
Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
http://www.pcguru.plus.com/winfaqs.html
wrote:
>my floppy drive is still not working.displays error
>message "A: not accessible, no id address mark found on
>floppy". none of the floppy disks work.tried deleting
>controller and floppy from device manager but its still
>buggered
From Tue Nov 19 09:39:31 2002
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Subject: Re: Floppy drive can't read the disks
From: Preferred Customer >
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 04:39:31 -0500
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:42:35 +0100, "Sudarwan Djojonegoro"
> wrote:
>I have built a new computer and use XP Home operating system. Each one I
>can't get the floppy drives to read disks. The disk errors are either,
>format the disk or insert disk. I have tried new floppy drive, mucking with
>the cables and checking CMOS settings etc but I am getting really
>frustrated!
>
>Can anybody please help me?
>
>
>
ATTENTION all those having floppy drive problems with XP - I found
what I think causes it.
I, like many others, have been unable to use the floppy drive ever
since I upgraded to XP SP-1. I could use it fine with the original
version. I decided to do a test. I did a fresh install of the
original XP. The floppy worked fine with no problems. I then updated
the OS to SP-1, still no problems. The only thing that I noticed was
that the SMBUS Controller driver needed to be installed. I remebered
that this was an Intel controller (I have the Gigabyte GA-8IHXP
motherboard with Intel 850E chipset). I downloaded and installed the
latest Intel Chipset Driver installation program, rebooted, and the
SMBUS Controller was now installed correctly. I tried the floppy
drive and it DIDN'T work. Go figure. I did a system restore back to
the XP SP-1 update and after rebooting I checked the SMBUS Controller
and it was installed correctly. I checked the floppy drive and also
no problems. I assume from this that if the Intel Chipset Install
utility is used, then it causes this problem with the floppy drive. I
did a fresh install of Windows XP SP-1 by itself and my floppy didn't
work. I guess the only way to resolve the problem is to install the
original version, then update to SP-1, and don't install the Intel
driver
OR, MAYBE (like what I did)
install the original version, then update to SP-1, and install the
Intel driver, then restore to the SP-1 update so that the SM BUS will
load correctly.
Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
http://www.pcguru.plus.com/winfaqs.html