Floppy drive woes

[Jac12]

My floppy died and I replaced it with a brand new one and although the light never is lit even when booting up it shows up in Bios it will not work. If I turn the ribbon around the other way the light stays on all the time and I know this is not right. I keep getting the message to put in the right media and click enter whenever I try to copy something even though the floppy disk is already in there..
Since the mobo is working great and I bought new ribbons for the drive could the place on the mobo that receives the ribbon have gone bad? Is there a way to check this? I know I don't really need a floppy because I use win xp pro and the cd will boot the computer but it not working is driving me nutz! lol
Thanks, Jo

 

[~Candy~]

Hi Jo, can you hook the floppy drive up outside of the case to see if it will read a boot disk floppy?

 

[Jac12]

I just tried to hook it up on the outside and it showed up in BIOS and in my computer but when I tried to use it it kept saying put a disk in. I did and it still told me to put a disk in. I don't get an error message. This is the darnedest thing I have ever seen. I guess me and floppy's will have to go our separate ways. The only thing is I'm going to upgrade my computer with a new MOBO and CPU. I'll still be using the same case but that's. Usually when I do this I give the old one to someone who needs it however it has Win. Pro and it's mine and I don't want to go out and by me a new one. They cost a fortune built can only be used on one computer. I have a USB Floppy but it won't do for an install.
I finished Hubby's new computer and I'm jealous of it's lightening speed. :

 

[~Candy~]

Have you tried a new floppy disk?

Hubby's lightening speed.....sounds like my situation with me sitting here on my celery unit

 

[Jac12]

I have tried a few new as well as used ones that I knew worked. I've tried new and used cables too. I've even put them in the wrong way on purpose and the light stays lit. I have taken them out of bios and system restarted the PC and it seems to find them when they are not even there. I get the message that windows found new hardware and has set it up for me. I look in system and sure enough it's there as well as in computer. It's so frustrating because when I build PCs I never have a problem with floppies. (A drive) problem is there is no physical floppy drive in my computer so how it finds it is beyond me
Thanks, Jac

 

[~Candy~]

Could be the actual floppy controller on the motherboard too. Try disabling the floppy controller in the bios too.

 

[Jac12]

I have been thinking all along that it might be the controller on the mobo. If it is is there any way to fix that?
Thanks, Jac

 

[~Candy~]

Nope, that would be called a new motherboard. There are also some add in cards you can buy that will give you a floppy controller and usually hard drive controller too, I have had them usually in older pcs, so not sure if they still make them or if they are even available anymore.

 

[~Candy~]

http://www.abcresellers.bigstep.com/item.jhtml?UCIDs=1068993|1072803&PRID=1055311

 

[Jac12]

The new MOBO and CPU come next month! lol
I'm still trying to figure out what I want. Something high end middle I think. I don't want to sink a fortune on it because computers are like what I've heard about Chinese food (no slur or harm intended) . Once you build a new one a few months later your hungry for more power again lol.
Jac

 

[~Candy~]

Worse than that, as soon as you order the parts, before you get them, they are obsolete