I get lots of weird ones here by the beach due to the salt, etc.  This
system is running a PCChips (Hsing?) motherboard (M755LMRE-H) with a
PIII-800 (circa 2001).  The floppy drive is detected and tested on boot up
but Windows 98 just grinds away.  The floppy drive tests good on another
machine and the cable is ok too.  The drive will not work in DOS either,
just the standard light and test  when the system boots, floppy boot is
impossible.  I reset the BIOS with no difference.  The Intel CPU fan and the
SIS 0900 onboard LAN is also nonfuncional, the only reason given is the
warning box saying so in Windows.  There are no conflicts  in device
manager.  I think my only solution is to stick an old controller card to get
my customer access again to the floppy and replace the CPU fan, but the
motherboard is on the way out.  He doesn´t use the modem or the LAN, just
some word processing.  Any thoughts out there?  Thanks!
Howard Rubin
Fortaleza, Brazil

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