From: "hass shayto" :Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 5:27 AM
Subject: [PCSOFT] woody wood pecker


> Upon booting and reaching the early stage of windows, the floppy
> drive light comes on associated with an annoying sound very much like
> woody wood pecker lasting for 5 seconds or so. I know there is some
> command [?] telling windows to search the floppy drive but what
> and where is this command? I already did the following steps and
> failed to dismiss said behavior:
> - checked that the Autoexec's Path line doesnot include A:\
> - confirmed the bios is setup to boot from C:\ then from A:\
> - opened controlPanel-systemIcon-performanceTab-fileSystem-floppyDisk
>   and cleared the option related to searching for new FDD
> - nothing awkward in win.ini, under [windows] : "load/run=" lines
> - nothing awkward in system.ini, under [386enh] : "device=" lines
>
> Your input is appreciated.
> Hass Shayto
>

Hass,
Along with what Bob Wright suggested you should also check that you don't
have an antivirus program set to scan the floppy drive on booting.

Mary Wolden

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