today my floppy drive became disabled

Billhuffsr61

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i have an IBM think centre. M50> it runs both windows xp pro and vista business in 2 hard drives. today my floppy drive became disabled /stopped functioning and i have not been able to re-enable it in the bios .. my pc is an 8189UNU M50 think centre. it uses an IBM board,Main Circuit Board b
3.00 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
16 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Hyper-threaded (2 total) Board: IBM IBM
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: IBM 2AKT51AUS 07/06/2005. i have had this pc for about 4 years and i have never had any trouble with it at any time. except today. i replaced the floppy drive with another new Alps that i had still in the package so i now it isnt the drive that failed. HELP! still waiting for an answer or help with this trouble. anyone?
 

Billhuffsr61

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I have tryed 2 new cables, and the board/bios still shows it disabled.i installed a brand new out of box ALPS floppy drive and the same result. but thankyou for the answer.