Floppy Drive stops working during Windows 98 SE?

Hi, I got this motherboard.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ws/eBayI...K:MEWNX:IT&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc#ht_519wt_1163

When the computer starts up into Windows 98 SE and I start to use the Floppy Drive, it cuts out.
It will be random. Sometime after 10 minutes, or sometimes after 20 minutes. Above all, it is very annoying and very frustrating.

I checked my BIOS settings many times.
Restored them, and then set them again, etc...

I do not know what it is!
I have tried 3 cables and 3 floppy drives.

Sometimes when I even turn on the PC I get 'Floppy disc(s) fail (40)'. After a few power cycles, it then find it and works. However, 10 or 20 minutes in, it will stop working, resulting in a blue screen and me having to press escape to drop what I was working on.


Does anyone have any ideas?!

 

Check your FDD Cable, or try running the drive as B drive.

PS your link doesnt work, and it would be well worth checking the caps on a old board like that.

 

Liked fixed.
I tried 3 cables already. I will try running it as a B drive.
The caps seem fine. I mean, sometimes it works and then sometimes it does not. Very weird.

 

Could it be your Disks you're using?

If you're in need of one I have a spare one some where.

 

Thanks Hexigon but there's no point. It's not the drive

Nope. Not the disks. If it were, the drive would not fail and crash Windows, but display a read error. EG: Abort, Retry, Fail

I tried setting is as drive B:/ but that did not work...
Could be my PS1 Development Boards causing the problem... There not even working. Wasted 2 days already and still no results.

 

IRQ conflict?

 

Hmm... Maybe you're right.

 

Ass! Sorry to hear that buddy.

Well you'll figure it out I'm sure, better luck next time.

It also could be driver issue, and I'm guessing it could be. I know for a fact Windows 98 had horrible driver issues, not sure if you've experienced that before but many people complained about it :/

Sounds like a "FUCKING WINDOWS 98" moment lol.

 

"FUCKING WINDOWS 98 SECOND EDITION" xD

 

Bad motherboard and/or PEBKAC.

If that kid gets so pissed waiting 15 seconds I don't want to see how he drives in LA traffic. Nice use of an empty case and all 60lbs of his frame.

 

I already did that, its not at least half satisfying as it looks.

 

God dammit. I just left the guy good feedback yesterday...
Now im fucked.

 

I think you failed to see it was a small film...

@Haunted you can follow up the feedback as well, don't forget.

Actually, if you need another Motherboard let me know, I have a few in the garage

 

I doubt its the motherboard. Its probably a conflict or user error.

Some skill was actually required to build pc's - as you are finding out.

 

Bad motherboard is only a *possibility*. Getting a floppy drive to work 100% of the time was a coveted skill during the 90s as well as getting an A and B drive to work with 3.5" and 5.25" drives.

My first Pentium box I got in 1995 had its FDD controller die an untimely death. Would sit at the HP splash screen for 5-10 minutes before booting solely because the controller died. Later found an AST Manhattan dual P90 box that I couldn't get to boot from floppy. Its a fun media format.

 

I will remove the Sony DTL-H2000's tomorrow and work from there removing other parts, and then try.
I will let you guys know

 

Try holding down F8 after the BIOS screen and before the computer starts to boot and and boot into a command prompt, do a

DIR A:

A few times (or if you are feeling confident try

XCOPY C:\CONFIG.SYS A:\RUBBISH.XXX /V

as that will write data to the disc)

Wait the 10 or 20 minutes and repeat, if it still dies or cuts out on you then it might be a dodgy controller / motherboard or a bad drive.

 

Oh I did. Camera angles and poor acting, etc.

 

Do you have any legacy non-pnp PCI/ISA cards in the system?

Can you take a picture of both the POST and the screen directly after it with your current IRQ configuration?

PS you can hit "pause" to pause it in order to take a picture.