I would suspect the controller on the motherboard. An onboard controller
failure does not necessaryly mean the rest of the motherboard is about
to fail, but it certainly does give your reason to consider replacing
it.

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
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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