Do you have a little half twist of the middle wires in the ribbon cable, and
is the end of the cable with the twist connected to the FDD?  This is
mandatory.  Set the bios boot disk order to a: first.  The FDD light should
either blink or stay on steady during the boot.  If not, the FDD connector
on the Epox is dead or the power lead from the power supply is bad.

If the light stays on steady, the ribbon cable or connector pins are bad.
Reverse the cable side to side (not end to end) or straighten any bent pins.

If the light blinks but the FDD still does not work, the O/S is to blame, or
the FDD is bad.  You would eliminate win2000 as the cause by booting up an
old dos diskette.
Tom Turak

-----Original Message-----
From: Darren Dilnott [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 11:32 PM


I have an Epox motherboard, P4 1.8, 256MB DDR Ram and Win2k.
I cannot get my FDD to work at all under Win2k. In fact i have tried 3
different drives, 5 different cables. I have tried the connectors up the
right way and the wrong way. Windows just locks up and refuses to find a
disk.
I have a friend with a totally different setup, but with Win2k, who has
exactly the same problem.
I have uninstalled the floppy drive and the floppy drive controller, and
then reinstalled them.
I have the onboard FDD controllert enabled in the BIOS. The boards are new,
so the BIOS is up to date.

Any suggestions would be welcome

Darren Dilnott

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