The Mystery of the Phantom FDD

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-11-14 07:07pm

Looks normal, right?

Until you consider the fact that my floppy drive isn't plugged into the motherboard or PSU...

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-11-14 07:13pm

Woah.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-11-14 07:16pm

bios says it has to be there so obviously it's working fine.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-11-14 07:49pm

I think windows just looks at your bios settings and does not bother making sure if there really is a floppy. Or is that just 9x?

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-11-14 07:50pm

Maybe it really is there, but it's invisible or in another dimension, or something...

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-11-14 08:54pm

Oh no, Mr Dalton has discovered the secret behind the Matrix.

*sends a boatload of agents to kill Dalton*

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2003-11-14 08:54pm

Well, my floppy drive is hooked up, but Windows refuses to recognize it. Maybe it's my drive that your computer is detecting...

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-11-15 02:55am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Maybe it really is there, but it's invisible or in another dimension, or something...

Scröder's FDD related to his cat and Schöoder's PCI mouse as well.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-11-16 01:05am

Looks like its reading your BIOS for the drive instead of actually trying to detect one on its own....

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-11-16 01:11am

I guess you could always just disable the device if it bothers you.

Super-Gagme · Post by **Super-Gagme** » 2003-11-16 09:10am

What skin is that you have over XP? That is XP right?

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2003-11-16 09:45am

why did it just try to close that dialogue screen?

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-11-16 10:06pm

Super-Gagme wrote:What skin is that you have over XP? That is XP right?

Yes, that is XP.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-11-16 11:06pm

Super-Gagme wrote:What skin is that you have over XP? That is XP right?

Rhodium Edge is the skin.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-11-16 11:09pm

Dalton, what happens if you boot into safe mode and delete it?

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-11-17 06:55am

Guys, I haven't rebooted since I've shown you that problem - but when my new FDD comes in the mail, I'll give y'all a status update.

Gagme: That is indeed XP, as Vertigo confirmed. Phong called it right; it's the Rhodium Edge third-party skin with the StyleXP DLL hack (the free one).

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-11-17 10:31am

I used to use Rhodium Edge (IIRC, the author released it first on the ArsTechnica boards) but have since switched to Watercolor XP (akin to the beta Whistler screenshots)

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-11-17 06:55pm

I got my new FDD today, and I think the reason why the old one stopped working was that the FDD was backwards. So now the new one's in, the cable's the right way round and the floppy drive works perfectly.

I've also put the DVD-ROM on the secondary mobo IDE port and PowerDVD has stopped locking up.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-11-18 03:04am

cool, it's always something simple like that....

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-11-18 12:18pm

Is there a free StyleXP? I can only find the shareware one.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-11-18 01:49pm

Dalton wrote:I got my new FDD today, and I think the reason why the old one stopped working was that the FDD was backwards. So now the new one's in, the cable's the right way round and the floppy drive works perfectly.

I've had floppy cables that were wired backwards. It was most annoying to have to flip the cable over (thank goodness you can insert them either way, unlike hard drive cables).