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Floppy Disk And Mouse Failure

I have not installed any new hardware, but windows is no longer recognising my floppy A drive, and after a few seconds my USB mouse does not work. When I reboot windows hangs and keeps on doing this. I have formatted my C drive and this still happens. I have also disconnected my A drive and taken it out of the CMOS settings but it still happens!!!!

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iainmurray

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I am using Windows XP. I have a dos memory tester on floppy, I will try and boot up from floppy and see what happens.

I have a slave drive connected that I access frequently, do you think this could be casuing any problems???

I have went into safe mode, but when I reboot again it freezes. It has only occurred in last few days.

I will also try without my USB mouse connected.

40GB Hard Drive: C:\ 30Gb, F:\ 10GB
8GB SLave Drive
768MB DDR 266 Ram
2GHZ INTEL P4

aindelicato

Try running on the 256 chip and see if it hangs, then try on the 512 chip (1 at a time) (assuming you only have 2 chips to equal 768)

Windows freezing is memory the majority of the time. One of your sticks may be bad, or the wrong speed.

iainmurray

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I have tried what I can. Have connected another floppy but the same still happens, have tried another connector ribbon but same keeps happening. Its not the memory as I have tried both individually and I had problems with that before but got it sorted.

I cant try any of the DOS functions as my floppy is not being recognised, also not being recognised when I try and boot from it.

I dunno what else too try, I havent added any hardware for months, havent got any viruses, havent done anything on PC recently that I havent doen before and always give the system a clean and check weekly!!!!

aindelicato

The only thing left is to check for BENT PINS on your motherboard at the floppy drive connector.