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Date: | Tue, 27 Jul 1999 23:33:36 +1000 |
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"Kurr, Martin" wrote:
> Two floppy drive failure questions:
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> 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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