Hi,

I would imagine you tested the system for a virus, trojan, etc?



At 08:17 AM 01/21/2003 -0300, you wrote:
>I get lots of weird ones here by the beach due to the salt, etc.  This
>system is running a PCChips (Hsing?) motherboard (M755LMRE-H) with a
>PIII-800 (circa 2001).  The floppy drive is detected and tested on boot up
>but Windows 98 just grinds away.  The floppy drive tests good on another
>machine and the cable is ok too.  The drive will not work in DOS either,
>just the standard light and test  when the system boots, floppy boot is
>impossible.  I reset the BIOS with no difference.  The Intel CPU fan and the
>SIS 0900 onboard LAN is also nonfuncional, the only reason given is the
>warning box saying so in Windows.  There are no conflicts  in device
>manager.  I think my only solution is to stick an old controller card to get
>my customer access again to the floppy and replace the CPU fan, but the
>motherboard is on the way out.  He doesn´t use the modem or the LAN, just
>some word processing.  Any thoughts out there?  Thanks!
>Howard Rubin
>Fortaleza, Brazil
>
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