I have a similar problem, the floppy worked until I enabled the 2 USB ports
on the motherboard then something called Floppy1 was found and the A: drive
disappeared.. It shows in the boot but not in windows and it has a yellow !
in the system.. Perhaps there's a conflict somehow in the bios.  Make sure
all IRQs are assigned and also perhaps try to update driver from the
motherboard CD and not win2k.

Dave Jones
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Lore" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] FDD and Win2K Problem


> Hi:
>
> we sell epox main boards, I had my tech support dept answer this:
>
>
> Even it's not very likely, but you still should making sure that's not
> because of the software issues, corrupted system files, virus infection
may
> cause such problem. Hook up a different hard drive with OS (prefer Win98)
> to this motherboard, see whether the problem persist, if the same problem
> occurs, then obviously the FDD controller on that motherboard  is faulty.
>
>

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