- Floppy icon apprears but no floppy drive installed
- Posted by TheBFG on October 16th, 2005
Suddenly from yesterday "My computer" shows a floppy disk icon but I have
never had a floppy drive installed.
This appeared after a boot up and a message about CMOS checksum error.
I don't think it is the battery because my motherboard is only 2 years old
and everything works fine after boot up.
Now this message does not appear but the floppy icon still appears even if I
delete it.
Also the RAM that I have 768Mb is now only recognised as 640 MB
This may just be unrelated to the problem.
I have a feeling that the BIOS settings changed somehow after the error
message but I don't have a lot of knowledge about this.
Can anyone suggest what might have occurred here.
Thanks in advance
Running Windows XP Home SP1 .
- Posted by Blake Handler on October 16th, 2005
I always sound silly when I saw "well something changed!"
If some magic elf didn't install a floppy -- then there is something that is
"telling" Windows that you "did install a floppy" and that's why Windows
detected it.
You also mentioned that your memory is being reported incorrectly -- and you
received a CMOS Check Sum error.
All three of these things (floppy, memory, checksum) all point to your
computer itself. Let's hope it is just the computer's initial setup (you
probably hit <F1> or <Esc> etc upon start up).
I'm hoping that in your CMOS you'll see that the Floppy was turned on -- and
the memory for your video was set too high. . .and while this may resolve
your problem. . .you'll want to figure out why your CMOS was changed (bad
battery?)
"TheBFG" wrote:
> Suddenly from yesterday "My computer" shows a floppy disk icon but I have
> never had a floppy drive installed.
> This appeared after a boot up and a message about CMOS checksum error.
> I don't think it is the battery because my motherboard is only 2 years old
> and everything works fine after boot up.
> Now this message does not appear but the floppy icon still appears even if I
> delete it.
> Also the RAM that I have 768Mb is now only recognised as 640 MB
> This may just be unrelated to the problem.
> I have a feeling that the BIOS settings changed somehow after the error
> message but I don't have a lot of knowledge about this.
> Can anyone suggest what might have occurred here.
> Thanks in advance
> Running Windows XP Home SP1 .
>
- Posted by Plato on October 16th, 2005
=?Utf-8?B?VGhlQkZH?= wrote:
>
> Suddenly from yesterday "My computer" shows a floppy disk icon but I have
> never had a floppy drive installed.
> This appeared after a boot up and a message about CMOS checksum error.
> I don't think it is the battery because my motherboard is only 2 years old
> and everything works fine after boot up.
The battery may be 6 years old, however. Seems your bios went to
default. Go into it, and tell your pc you dont have a floppy drive.
--
http://www.bootdisk.com/
- Posted by Drew Tognola on October 16th, 2005
How to change the BIOS Boot Options
* reboot computer. As it reboots hold down the 'Delete'
key until BIOS appears
* Using your arrow keys, use the right arrow to advance
to the 'Boot' option.
check to see if your Floppy is enabled.
If so, just remove it.
Drew
"TheBFG" <TheBFG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:104CA653-E023-44EA-BD5C-AEB24CA11234@microsoft.com...
> Suddenly from yesterday "My computer" shows a floppy disk icon but I have
> never had a floppy drive installed.
> This appeared after a boot up and a message about CMOS checksum error.
> I don't think it is the battery because my motherboard is only 2 years old
> and everything works fine after boot up.
> Now this message does not appear but the floppy icon still appears even if
> I
> delete it.
> Also the RAM that I have 768Mb is now only recognised as 640 MB
> This may just be unrelated to the problem.
> I have a feeling that the BIOS settings changed somehow after the error
> message but I don't have a lot of knowledge about this.
> Can anyone suggest what might have occurred here.
> Thanks in advance
> Running Windows XP Home SP1 .
>
- Posted by TheBFG on October 16th, 2005
First off.... thanks for all the replys
As regards memory issue..I reseated the memory modules and that solved the
problem.
But as far as the floppy disk icon it still appears. The CMOS error does not
appear now.
I will check the BIOS settings as sugested by Drew
Hopefully that will be the answer
Thanks again
"Drew Tognola" wrote:
> How to change the BIOS Boot Options
>
> * reboot computer. As it reboots hold down the 'Delete'
>
> key until BIOS appears
>
> * Using your arrow keys, use the right arrow to advance
>
> to the 'Boot' option.
>
> check to see if your Floppy is enabled.
>
> If so, just remove it.
>
> Drew
>
>
> "TheBFG" <TheBFG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:104CA653-E023-44EA-BD5C-AEB24CA11234@microsoft.com...
> > Suddenly from yesterday "My computer" shows a floppy disk icon but I have
> > never had a floppy drive installed.
> > This appeared after a boot up and a message about CMOS checksum error.
> > I don't think it is the battery because my motherboard is only 2 years old
> > and everything works fine after boot up.
> > Now this message does not appear but the floppy icon still appears even if
> > I
> > delete it.
> > Also the RAM that I have 768Mb is now only recognised as 640 MB
> > This may just be unrelated to the problem.
> > I have a feeling that the BIOS settings changed somehow after the error
> > message but I don't have a lot of knowledge about this.
> > Can anyone suggest what might have occurred here.
> > Thanks in advance
> > Running Windows XP Home SP1 .
> >
>
>
>
