Driver Problem - On a floppy drive!?

[Clay Gerrard]

I have an old AMD 366 Gateway. I've recently formated and dropped in a
clean install of XP. I believe gateway.com is telling me its a "Lucent"
motherboard. I just upgraded the BIOS to 0AAQM022.

When I boot into Windows XP it installs everything fine, except the floppy
drive. I get two listings for "standard floppy disk controller" and no
catergory for Floppy Disks Drives. When I remove either one of the
duplicate "standard floppy disk controllers" - windows imediately detects
the floppy drive, and everything works great.

I can log off/log in, I can hibernate/wakeup, but if I restart when I get
back into windows it again redetects 2 standard floppy disk controllers.

Any thoughts?

 

[namniar]

Check your BIOS to see if the floppy is detected correctly, and that there
is only one floppy detected. There may be (or may not be) some setting for
you to indicate quantity and type of floppy drives you have installed in the
BIOS - I just can't remember. Also, check which connector on the ribbon
cable / jumper settings on the floppy to see if they are correct.

If you haven't changed the hardware connections on the floppy at all and
your BIOS was not changed then it is likely a Windows issue and some one
else will likely speak up.

r.

 

[Chuck]

Instead of removing the extra floppy & controller, try disabling it.
You might want to check the BIOS as well. There was a scheme in some BIOS to
make the A&B floppys point to the same drive when only one was installed.
Windows can easily misdetect such a thing.

 

[Guest]

I'm experiencing the same issue with a Gateway 400 (AMD K26). I have tried
the suggestions, but the results are the same.