Odd Problem - Floppy Disk

[nheather]

I've just recased my PC to give it better cooling. I've also finally made the change from beige to black.

For vanity sake I had to buy a new black DVD-RW but I decided to ditch the floppy as I never use them.

Other than that, nothing has changed.

Now here is the strange behaviour. My PC boots and runs fine but on shutdown I get a Floppy Disk error about needing to insert the right disk. Other than that the PC shutsdown okay.

So I went into the BIOS thinking that the Floppy was still defined but because it isn't really there the PC gets confused. So set it from 1.44M 3.5" to 'Disabled'.

With this setting the PC won't boot. Gets to the PCI Device listing and then waits forever.

So with the BIOS set to 3.5" floppy the PC runs fine but I get an odd message when I shut down, but if I 'Disable' it the PC won't boot at all.

Any ideas?

Motherboard is ASUS A8N-E
OS is Windows XP

Cheers,

Nigel

 

[nheather]

Some of the mystery is solved.

The warning on shutdown is because windows still thinks it has a floppy disk.

If I delete it then the error goes away but unfortunately windows detects and installs it on next boot.

Disabling it in windows is a more permanent fix butit still feels to be a bit of a fudge.

In the BIOS I had previously checked that the floppy wasn't in the boot sequence and that floppy seek was not on.

I'll check some of the other BIOS suggestions.

Cheers,

Nigel

 

[nheather]

On the same screen where you set the floppy to "None" or "Disabled", I think you can also change when the PC halts if it detects errors, one of those could be stopping it booting as it's not detecting a floppy.

Couldn't see anything like this in my BIOS

Cheers,

Nigel