My thanks to those who wrote to help me get two floppy drives to work in
my friend's AMD K-6 Win95B machine. At the moment, the drives are
working, but I don't know how long that will be the case. Previously, at
her house, the system wouldn't even begin to power up whenever the 2nd
floppy's power cable was plugged in. (Pressing the power switch [ATX
system] had absolutely no visible effect ONLY when the 2nd floppy was
connected - power cable only.) We brought her system to my house where
there's more room to work on it, and it worked fine here! I kept the
system overnight, booting and rebooting many times, and all seemed well
with the floppy drives.
The next day I took it back to her place, and the first dozen or so
times we hit the power switch, the fans (power supply and CPU) would
come on for about 10 seconds, then the system would shut down. During
that 10 seconds, no POST activity was occurring. Rolling my eyes, I
pulled the power cable from the B: drive, and the system booted
normally! After using the computer for about 10 minutes to verify that
no other weirdness was going on, I shut it down and reconnected the B:
drive's power cable again, and this time it booted! So that's where she
is now - the system is working, but I have no idea why.
She uses an APC surge protecter, (not a full blown UPS), so my next step
would have been to bypass that in case it was somehow confusing the ATX
P/S. (Is that even possible?) Along the same line of thought, I
considered taking my APC BackUPS Pro 600 over there in case she has a
power problem of some kind. I'm at a loss with this, especially since it
worked flawlessly at my house, but at least it's working for her now,
although who knows for how long?
Sorry this is so long, but perhaps it will help someone else who has a
similar problem, or maybe it will provide enough info for someone to
help me in case it decides to stop working again.
Jeff Delzer
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