HELP: Floppy Controller Card Install

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From: Winston Lazaroo
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:00

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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.
My system is SCSI so I really dont need any of the IDE channels.
I just can get past the POST. I keep getting eitherthat the Floppy drive is
not detected or when I tweak the setup, I get a message that there is a
resoursce conflict.
How can I get this problem solved.
Would appreciate any help.
I intend to format my hard disk and freshly install Win 98SE so I need to
have the floppy drive working.
If I cannot get this solved this way, I will have to get a new motherboard.
This motherboard is new but I got it sometime ago thru an Ebay auction.

Any help will be appreciated.
Winston

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From: "Winston Lazaroo" <winstano@earthlink.net>
Subject: HELP: Floppy Controller Card Install
Date: 2000/03/28
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