Legacy Floppy Drive not working

[Scott Downie]

Hello all,

I have an irritating problem with a Dell Dimension XPS computer. I am
using it to run a bicycle trainer system and upgraded for little money to do
this one task. My problem is that the floppy drive will not read the disk in
the drive. I have done many things to track down the problem. I swapped
drives, I swapped cables, I checked the bios, I reset the cmos. The computer
can see the drive. The bios says its there. Hardware management says the
device is functioning properly. I have uninstalled the drivers and the
floppy drive controller and reinstalled. Its not that I need it that badly,
but I am obsessed with finding the problem. The only thing I can relate it
to is it seemed to happen after I upgraded the processor from a P3 450mgz to
P3 750mgz. but I can't be sure that is what did it. Any help with this would
be appreciated so I can get this out of my head and move on to more
important problems.

Thanks William

[Scott Downie]

Post by Scott Downie
Hello all,
I have an irritating problem with a Dell Dimension XPS computer. I
am using it to run a bicycle trainer system and upgraded for little money
to do this one task. My problem is that the floppy drive will not read the
disk in the drive. I have done many things to track down the problem. I
swapped drives, I swapped cables, I checked the bios, I reset the cmos.
The computer can see the drive. The bios says its there. Hardware
management says the device is functioning properly. I have uninstalled the
drivers and the floppy drive controller and reinstalled. Its not that I
need it that badly, but I am obsessed with finding the problem. The only
thing I can relate it to is it seemed to happen after I upgraded the
processor from a P3 450mgz to P3 750mgz. but I can't be sure that is what
did it. Any help with this would be appreciated so I can get this out of
my head and move on to more important problems.
Thanks William

Disregard my posting, I have found the problem. It was in BIOS, the floppy
controller was set for what I thought was correct "ENABLED" This is
incorrect, the correct setting for my machine was "AUTO". I found the answer
on the Dell Forums. If you were working on it for me thank you.

William