"Kurr, Martin" wrote:

> Two floppy drive failure questions:
>
> 1) A "PC100" motherboard with integrated sound and ATI 8MB AGP video

Interesting, which mode? I know they use SiS 6326 or SiS 620, but never ATI.

> gives
> the evil retry or cancel box when A: is accessed (PII-333, 64MB DIMM).
> Removed all other components and same thing.  Bootup shows floppy failure
> (40) when bootup floppy seek is enabled.  Client thought mobo was DOA and
> got replacement (I had him do the secret mark trick to ensure it wasn't the
> same mobo).  Win95 or Win98 or different hard drives show same results.  I
> would never recommend this mobo, but the client is shy to spend more money
> for a real mobo, plus video and sound components.  I checked the floppy
> drive in another system and it works fine.

Same thing happened to me before, the old floppy works on other machine but
doesn't like PC100 mobo, I think this is a bug for SiS chip. The only way to fix
it seems to be replace the floppy.

J Qian

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