removed floppy drive, yet still in device manager

Windows Hardware 9627 This topic was started by craigz, 2002-11-25 01:41

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2002-11-25 02:41

I removed my floppy drive from system, Asus P4T-C motherboard, and it still shows up in device manager. If I disable in boot menu from bios setup and set legacy drive as None the computer will not load windows. If I uninstall from device manager, it just reinstalls itself every time computer is restarted. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

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sapiens74

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#99136

2002-11-26 08:51

You need to disbale the FDC controller as well in the BIOS

craigz

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#99137

2002-11-26 14:23

Quote:You need to disbale the FDC controller as well in the BIOS

Thanks for the help. I don't recall a setting for the controller, but I'll go in the bios and check out what is there

craigz

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#99138

2002-11-26 14:47

Quote:Quote:You need to disbale the FDC controller as well in the BIOS

Thanks for the help. I don't recall a setting for the controller, but I'll go in the bios and check out what is there

I can't seem to see anywhere to disable the FDC controller. There is a setting under the main tab to choose the size of floppy or none, then under the boot tab the floppy can be disabled. If I set the floppy to none and disacble booting, my computer will not load windows. There is a setting to disable the PCI IDE controllers, but those are for my hard drives and CD-Roms (Primary and Secondary). My board is an ASUS P4T533-C and AWARD BIOS. Any more suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

DosFreak

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#99139

2002-11-26 15:00

There should be an option that states something like Show floppy in Windows 95 or something. Wish I could recall the exact wordage but the floppy drive is mentioned.

pmistry

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#99140

2002-11-26 18:42

Actually you need to find the option to disable onboard FDC controller. Usually found in integrated periphereals section of the BIOS. (Award BIOS anyway)

Davros

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#99141

2002-11-26 20:08

Make sure in the BIOS that you have the hard drive at the top of the boot order list.

craigz

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#99142

2002-11-27 02:39

well guys, there is no setting to disable the FDC controller in the Bios, although I do remember my old ASUS CUSL2-C did have the intergrated peripheral option that pmistry mentioned. My computer will boot up now as long as the hard drive is first in boot sequence but it still loading the floppy drivers on startup. For now I have the FDC disabled in device manager and that keeps the icon from showing up in My Computer. It would be nice to have it totally removed from the system, but until I can figure out how to Disable the controller in the Bios, Windows will still try do install drivers for it. Thanks everyone for your help and if you think of any other options, please let me know.
Sincerely,
Craig