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Winston Lazaroo wrote:
> 
> 
> Can someone please help me to get my floppy drive to be recognised by the
> system.
> Heres what happened. I realised that I lost one of the pins on the floppy
> channel on the mtherboard and so my floppy drive couldn't be detected.
> Rather than buying a new motherboard, I followed the advice given by 
some on
> the newsgroups and went out and bought a Floppy Controller Card.
> I installed the card into the first ISA slot next to the PCI slot, and
> attached the floppy cable to it.
> I also went into The BIOS and disabled the floppy and the IDE 
controllers.
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Remove from that ISA buss slot and install elsewhere, that's a "shared 
slot", thus can cause problems if PCI card is installed next to it. Enable 
and setup the new floppy controller card and install. As for the IDE 
ports, unless that's the way it was before the problem, OK, but some 
mtrbds. need it active but "none" installed so SCSI can work properly. 
Peroceed to check your system for results, also make sure that the cable 
is installed pin-1 to red stripe on the new FD card.

good luck -----Willy

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