joel: Just a thought. Since you've tried everything else, is the floppy drive connected to the end connection of the controller cable, not the middle one? Many floppy cables have a conector in the middle of the cable with a twisted pair of wires for a second floppy, the "B" drive. The "a" drive floppy usually won't operate from the middle connection. On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 20:01:32 -0700 "Joel M. Blackman" <[log in to unmask]> writes: > Larry, > I didn't think about the power thing, but I can't use a different > pigtail > because there is only one with the floppy plug on it. I could plug > a > different pigtail into the CD-RW, whose plug the floppy plug comes > from. > I'll try that one. I can't test the floppy in DOS because it won't > run. I > tried to boot from the Win 98 start up disk, but it didn't even show > up > during the boot. I know Windows sees this drive, as does the BIOS. > When > Windows doesn't see a drive I can't see it in Powerdesk 4. I can > see it in > Powerdesk and in my computer, so I know the mobo is not dead. The > power > supply thing seems like a longshot, but since there is little left, > I'll try > that next. Thanks, Joel PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml