Floppy drive not recognized correctly

[austinh]

The floppy on my pc is constantly being recognized as a 5 1/4 inch floppy. I have set it and saved the settings on the bios but that did not work. I have opened it up and checked to see if the connections were secure and they were. I thought it may have been the cmos battery but if I changed the settings and restart w/o shutting down the settings should have stuck right?
I am now thinking that maybe it is the floppy because when I had stuck a floppy in the drive after shutting down and starting up again it recognized the 3 1/2 inch floppy and when I tried to see what was on the disk it said the floppy needs to be formatted and it would not open it. Although when I stuck the same floppy in another pc it opened it fine.
Any suggestions

 

[IncubusDesigns]

Have you tried the floppy drive itself in another machine? Might at least show whether its a problem with the Drive or your machine..

 

[franklin97355]

The BIOS doesn't check the size of the floppy. if the settings get reset you probably have a BIOS/motherboard problem.

 

[austinh]

thanks for the suggestions guys.
What do you suggest to do about the bios if it is indeed that franklin97355??

 

[edfair]

If a flashable BIOS, then flash. If not , then M/B.
Settings for CMOS should remain if you are exiting correctly. Just make sure you aren't calling for defaults to be loaded.
How about setting the floppy to none, then exit. Next boot , see if the none has stuck. Ed Fair
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[austinh]

Well I tried to update the bios but to no avail.
Any suggestions?

 

[just1guy]

First things first, clear the CMOS in your MB. Check the MB booklet to locate the jumper on the MB to clear the CMOS. If this doesn’t work download the original Bios of your MB and flash the bios. Do this first before attempting to upgrade the bios. Next, borrow do not buy a floppy drive that you know works and install it to your MB. Use the cable of the borrowed floppy not yours. do all of this in steps. If one of them works stop there.Back track to when the problem originated and towards the problem. In other words, what you added/removed from your PC before the problem began.

 

[johnodq]

What connector on the cable is it attached to? On some system it detects the drive incorrectly if you connect the floppy to a different connector.

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[austinh]

Thanks I will try these suggestions

 

[drdebit]

I would try the borrowed drive and cable first, to give me a clue as to whether more drastic measures were necessary (cmos and bios flash talk scares me because i don't know how to do it.)
Also, if I was tinkering,idle curiousity would lead me to wonder if I could set it up as a B drive and make the system recognize it that way.
I happen to have a 5 1/4 floppy lying around, and I would also try installing that, seeing if the system would recognize it, and then remove it and reinstall 3 1/2.

 

[austinh]

Well I appreciate all the suggestions. I tried incubusdesigns and just1guy's suggestions and replaced the drive with another floppy drive I had lying around and it fixed the problem. the system detected it and it worked fine.
Thanks a lot guys for your help.