That's too odd. Did you check the pins on the motherboard side to make sure
one isn't bent/broken. It's usually hard to see unless you really look. Of
course the cable is always suspect.

MRW

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> No, but I put a different floppy in the machine with the same effect.
>  Seems odd, though, 'cuz it worked before.  I have a 3rd floppy,
> maybe I'll try it to ferret out 2 bad floppies.
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> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 12:04 PM
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> More likely the fd went bad...did you test it in another pc?
>
> Mike Wafkowski
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> > Hey gang,
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> > This is WOT - involves floppies & Win98, but thought someone out
> > there might have some insights.
> >
> > I recently reinstalled Win98 on an older box, and after all
> > software & such was back on, I noticed that the floppy no longer
> > worked.  The activity light does not come on during initial boot,
> > but if I try to access it, the ligt comes on & runs a while before
> > WinBlows tells me that the device is not ready.
> >
> > The floppy is turned on in the bios, & is in the boot order, but
> > the machine will not boot from floppy.  I have R^2 the floppy & the
> > cable, but neither has affected the problem.  Is there some
> > interrupt sharing that will hose thie floppy, or is something
> > screwed on my
> > mobo?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
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