Help before I kill my PC!

[flamethrower205]

Ok, the damn floppy drive on my comp ain't working, and I don't know why. I've tried reseting irq's and all that jazz in BIOS, but it still doesn't work! It tells me IRQ 6 kis also being used by some other device, but it doesn't even say irq 6 exits! Please help before I throw this piece of trash out the window.

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[OldBear]

Don't throw it out yet. I have had sporadic problems with my floppy drive
since installing WinXP. Bought new drive and new cable. Still goes nuts
now and then.
I have no answer. Maybe someone else does.


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[flamethrower205]

bump

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[Rob423]

What is IRQ..??


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[Zoron]

Haven't heard of that one. I don't use my floppy drive often enough for me to notice...
What does it do?

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[pr497]

werent you one of the people who agreed in another thread that floppy drives should be discontinued or something like that?...
ironic...isnt it?
anyways...maybe you need a new floppy drive?

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[pr497]

i just did a search (im really bored) and it turns out you werent one of the people who said that floppies should be dead...
my apologies...

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[dhlucke]

That was me and I'm doing fine

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[OldBear]

When you insert a good disk, it says it isn't formated and asks if you want to format.
Boot to Win2k and it works fine.
Strange huh?



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[flamethrower205]

see mine doesn't even let me access the floppy. Rather, in system properties under hardware it says floppy is sharing IRQ w/ another device. I need floppy cause I don't want to waste a CD every time I move a file to old comp.

edit: by not access floppy I mean it doesn't even appear in my computer.
Sig of the week.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by flamethrower205 on 03/18/02 05:44 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[flamethrower205]

Ok, I solved my problem. It took a bit of erm windows editing, but it solved it.

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[OldBear]

Going to share?


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[pr497]

ditto...just incase this happens to me...

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[flamethrower205]

Sure....but I'll tell you guys the easier and more secure method which I found out today works. Basically, XP installs this thing called TPKD which is some antipiracy crap, but this may cause conflicts, and give u certain errors, one of these being that your floppy IRQ doesn't have enough resources. This can be fixed by a driver update for it.

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