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| Thread ID: 126349 | 2012-08-21 22:13:00 | IRQ conflict? | Renegade (16270) | Press F1 |
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| 1296057 | 2012-08-21 22:13:00 | This is weird, had a call from someone saying when they connect with their 2degrees stick on their desktop, the floppy drive hammers away. OS is XP. I asked if they actually still use floppies, and yes, they do :eek: It still hammers away when they disconnect. Haven't been there yet, but thinking it could be an IRQ conflict? |
Renegade (16270) | ||
| 1296058 | 2012-08-21 23:08:00 | Why don't they just disable the floppy drive in device manager, and then re-enable when they want to use it. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1296059 | 2012-08-22 00:13:00 | Is the stick installed and working properly? Windows includes the floppy by default when it's searching for drivers I'm pretty sure. I have a floppy drive on a shelf gathering dust somewhere, hard to believe people still use them. My last machine didn't even get an optical drive. I am seriously considering getting a nice USB powered external Optical drive and maybe a floppy as well (unlikely) and not putting internal ones in any future machines. The only time I use the drive is to install windows and the occasional driver or software install. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1296060 | 2012-08-22 01:39:00 | Simple. Move the stuff on floppies off onto a HDD or something. Remove FDD, disbale FDD. They're crazy if they think the FDDisks are reliable. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1296061 | 2012-08-22 01:51:00 | Yeah, I'm going to recommend they move into the 21st century and ditch floppys. Might see if having a floppy in the drive will stop the hammering in the meantime. | Renegade (16270) | ||
| 1296062 | 2012-08-22 03:57:00 | Perhaps the software that drives the USB stick decides to access A:\ for no good reason? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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