New graphics card, but now says I have a floppy drive and lost one of my disc drives.

themaestro023 · Oct 21, 2013

Installed a new GeForce GTX 650 after old one died. Updated drivers successfully and everything works fine now. But have lost one of my two disc drives and gained a floppy drive I do not have installed. My old gpu had two power sockets and the new one only has one. Could this be the problem?

mjmacka · Oct 21, 2013

This should not be related. Power on a GPU powers the GPU, nothing else. If it's not plugged in, the PC will give you an error or not post.

Most likely, one of the two disk drives got uninstalled. I'm not sure why you have a floppy.

themaestro023 · Oct 21, 2013

mjmacka :

My motherboard drivers updated at the same time and someone suggested checking the BIOS as the floppy may have been added then.

mjmacka · Oct 21, 2013

Chip-set drivers wouldn't change anything unless you changed settings in your BIOS... but that makes sense for why you see a floppy drive.

Make sure that the second disk drive is set up in the BIOS too.

themaestro023 · Oct 22, 2013

mjmacka :

I'm not that happy about going into the BIOS as I do not know that much about computers and have not touched anything in there yet because it all looks so confusing. What are 'IDE drives'? And what should I look for to change so that the missing disk drive (an LG) is showing again. The other drive (a Plextor Blu-ray read/writer) is working and showing fine.

Any help is gratefully received.

mjmacka · Oct 22, 2013

IDE, also known as PATA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA are the old style hard drive connections. I might be able to give you step-by-step instructions is you send me the make/model of your PC or motherboard hardware information. CPU-Z or Speccy (both software) can assist with pulling that information.

themaestro023 · Oct 23, 2013

mjmacka :

Sorry about delay in replying. Will contact you again if I need help. Many thanks.

bpowers4g · Feb 11, 2014

themaestro023 :

Go to your BIOS and turn floppy drive off. They don't always take it out of the BIOS when they don't actually install one. I had the same problem until I turned it off in BIOS. This will sometimes cause your computer to not boot up as well.

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