System Locks when Using Floppy

[Dr. Peter McClean Millar]

Several months ago I posted about the problems I had when writing to a
floppy disk under Win95. Many people contacted me to offer help and
advice. Everything from disabling the 32 bit drivers for the floppy,
upgrading the HSFLOP file and looking for irq conflicts. Thanks to
everyone but nothing worked. I'm still saving work from something like
word or excel then rebooting to dos to save the file onto a disk. let
me tell you this sucks. However, there is more to the story now and it
may help someone else or me (hopefully). My sytem is a P166, Triton
Motherrboard, 512k cache, 1.2 GB WD (fast), 1.08 GB Samsung (bloody
fast !!), 512MB Connor (not that slow), Adaptec SCSI running 4.4x
Pioneer CD ROM and a Yamaha 102 CDR, ATI Graphics Pro Turbo, Award PnP
BIOS, Sound Blaster 16 PnP. OK I hear someone say Jeez no wonder it
doesnt work theres so much stuff the poor computer is confused as
hell. But I stripped everything out except the ATI card and the
Samsung drive and formatted it. So I started from a clean system. What
happened when I tried to make a start up disk or a norton rescue disk
- Yep it locked up tighter than a duck's bum. The one common
denominator seems to be that the locks come whenever the disk is or
becomes full. e.g. with the norton rescue disk, it locks just as the
first of the 2 rescue disks being made gets full. It seems to me (who
knows bugger all about this stuff) that there is some conflict with
the warning / error handling routine. Now wether it is because of my
motherboad or BIOS or what I dont know. But thats not to say that it
doesn't lock up whenever I write a small file to an empty disk or have
the write protect tab on. I have had lock up running CD ROMS, trying
to burn CDROMS, playing Pinball (the Win95 freebie - Locks every
time). I have run every diognosis tool I can get my hands on and there
seems to be no conflicts at all. I even changed the floppy drive and
cable. I have win 3.11 on one of the drives and if I run it I have no
problems with the floppy or any of the CDs which lock up WIN95. I'm
willing to bet it is 95. But why - God alone knows. It also seems that
I am not alone in having these problems. If anyone has managed to
solve the problem since I last posted I'm prepared to date Chelsea
Clinton for the info. (hey I need it fixed bad !!)

Thanks

Pete

[Craig Mason]

Dr. Peter McClean Millar (mil...@bora.dacom.co.kr) wrote:
: Several months ago I posted about the problems I had when writing to a

: floppy disk under Win95. Many people contacted me to offer help and
: advice. Everything from disabling the 32 bit drivers for the floppy,
: upgrading the HSFLOP file and looking for irq conflicts. Thanks to
: everyone but nothing worked. I'm still saving work from something like
: word or excel then rebooting to dos to save the file onto a disk. let
: me tell you this sucks.

: I am not alone in having these problems. If anyone has managed to

: solve the problem since I last posted I'm prepared to date Chelsea
: Clinton for the info. (hey I need it fixed bad !!)
:
: Thanks
:
: Pete

Pete,
You are quite correct that you are not alone with this problem. I just
upgraded my 486-40 to a Cyrix 5x86-120 and the problem started. Mine
happens most time when I access the floppy from within Win 95. I am
going to put my 486 back in and see if the problem goes away. I don't
know what that will tell me, but I just gotta know.
Good luck with your problem.. If you discover the secret to this please
let me and all others with this problem know.

Thanks
Craig
cma...@mo.net

[cj...@werple.net.au]

In Article <news:501b8d$7...@twain.mo.net>,

This may or may not help you but when you bang your head against the
computer keyboard long enough, apart from minor abbraisions is to look in
your cmos for the answer, my personal experience with quite a number of
boards and win '95 is that most unexplained problems resulted from cmos
settings such as the virus protection option being enabled and trying to
install win '95.....try restoring the power on defaults or cmos default
settings.

Hope this helps.

CJAY.

[Alex]

This is a Longshot, but have you tried replacing your floppy drive
connector? I was having lockups with my floppy drives (I have 2 installed,
a & b) until I finally replaced the connector as a last resort. Haven't had
a problem since.
Hope this helps. Good Luck!

cj...@werple.net.au wrote in article <199608312...@werple.net.au>...

[Infidel]

Alex <Xe...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in article
<01bb9ceb$59c2b200$759db8cd@xelas>...

> This is a Longshot, but have you tried replacing your floppy drive
> connector? I was having lockups with my floppy drives (I have 2
installed,
> a & b) until I finally replaced the connector as a last resort. Haven't
had
> a problem since.
> Hope this helps. Good Luck!

Whenever I get these strange problems with a Floppy or Fixed Disk, It is
always
a good idea to move those flat connector cables around.

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[Yonat D.]

Hi,
Try using the WIn-eXpose-I/O shareware to find out which files is
being acceessed on this drive
You can find the WIn-eXpose-I/O shareware at:
http://www.shetef.com

Enjoy and good luck
/Janet