Re: Floppy drive freezing computer

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From: Robert O.
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 00:00

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I've had a simular experience with my 486dx33, and a sony CDrom
before. It would lock up sometimes (in dos though) when transfering
files from cd to hd. I have no idea what was up, but I do know that I
found hitting the scroll lock key always clears the problem in dos.

On Sat, 24 Oct 1998 07:38:51 -0400, "Lucky7" <lmaustin@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>I have a computer that is PC compatible with Windows 95 loaded.  A new
>floppy drive was just added (A:)   It works sometimes so it doesn't appear
>to be a hardware problem and it works in most all programs some of the time
>but it frequently freezes the computer when transferring files from the
>floppy to the hard drive or when reading from the floppy in programs like
>Wordperfect and several others.
>
>I checked the device manager and it said there were no conflicts.  It didn't
>look as if any other device was trying to use the same IRQ.   The new floppy
>drive
>was replacing a bad floppy drive.
>
>Anybody have any ideas what could be wrong.
>
>
>
>
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From: 721036@NOSPAM.ican.net (Robert O.)
Subject: Re: Floppy drive freezing computer
Date: 1998/10/31
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