Re: strange issue with mobo, hd, xp..

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"technut" <mix2plix@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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during windows startup.. there is a floppy drive seek that is causing
my primary sata boot drive to hard seek, spin down and spin up again.
its really weird. i replaced the floppy and its cable. i disabled the
floppy drive controller in windows and turned it off in bios that
resolved the issue but i need access to the floppy for some things i
work on.

i've searched for information on this issue all over the net but to no
avail. its buggin the heck out of me and my wife is about to toss me
and the computer out the house 'cause she know's i wont leave it alone
till i find a reason and a solution other than just turning off access
to the floppy.

motherboard: asus m3a78 pro / 4 gigs corsair mem / sony dvd/cd -
phillips cdrw on primary ide slot / wd 160gb sata 1 - wd 1tb on sata 2
- wd 1tb on sata 3 / windows xp sp3.

datalifegaurd says all the hard drives are fine.. this is an ongoing
issue starting with the introduction of a seagate 702.11 1.5tb drive
with bad firmware. i've replaced the privious motherboard [asus m3a]
with the one i have now as a precaution against the board maybe having
a short due to repeated power cycling during data recovery processes.
so this is a fairly new board and everything worked fine till the
introduction of the seagate.

the seagates have been shipped back to the manufacturer and money
returned by the vendor.

any ideas out there?

thanks


technut:
What happens when you remove the floppy drive from the boot device priority
in the BIOS settings? Or set it so that the floppy drive is last in the boot
priority order (following the HDD & the CD-ROM). Same problem?
Anna


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