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 Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://freepctech.com