I had to shut my pc down the other day and when I rebooted it My computer failed to recognise it. It shows up in Device manager with a yellow exclamation mark. It gives an Error 31 message that it cannot load the device driver files because of a conflict with another device. Nothing else shows a conflict. I thought it may be the drive. I changed it out. No joy. I changed out the cable, still no luck. I removed the device and drivers for the floppy and the floppy controller. Windows reinstalled them witht eh same problem. The controller is built into the SIS chipset on my MB. I figured the problem was the floppy controller. I ordered a USB floppy drive and installed it. Windows is giving me the same error on it. It is refusing to accept the usb driver that came with it and insists the manufacturer is: (Standard floppy disk drives) and type is :Floppy disk drives. It gives the correct location as:on Sony USB Floppy. It keeps reinstalling the windows driver no matter what I do. Please help ASAP. I need the floppy drive to transfer files to my embroidery machine for work.
Ok some more info... I used my old drive with windows 98 loaded on it to boot and it recognized the hardware just fine. this rules out a hardware problem. It is definitely a windows 2000 problem. The event log gave me this message: sysdex FDD Failed to load, Event ID: 7026. A search of microsoft KB didn't turn up anything helpful. Any ideas? "xxena" wrote: > I had to shut my pc down the other day and when I rebooted it My computer > failed to recognise it. It shows up in Device manager with a yellow > exclamation mark. > It gives an Error 31 message that it cannot load the device driver files > because of a conflict with another device. > > Nothing else shows a conflict. I thought it may be the drive. I changed it > out. No joy. I changed out the cable, still no luck. I removed the device > and drivers for the floppy and the floppy controller. Windows reinstalled > them witht eh same problem. The controller is built into the SIS chipset on > my MB. I figured the problem was the floppy controller. > > I ordered a USB floppy drive and installed it. Windows is giving me the > same error on it. It is refusing to accept the usb driver that came with it > and insists the manufacturer is: (Standard floppy disk drives) and type is > :Floppy disk drives. It gives the correct location as:on Sony USB Floppy. > > It keeps reinstalling the windows driver no matter what I do. > > Please help ASAP. I need the floppy drive to transfer files to my > embroidery machine for work.
xxena wrote: > Ok some more info... > > I used my old drive with windows 98 loaded on it to boot and it recognized > the hardware just fine. this rules out a hardware problem. It is definitely > a windows 2000 problem. The event log gave me this message: sysdex FDD > Failed to load, Event ID: 7026. A search of microsoft KB didn't turn up > anything helpful. Any ideas? > > "xxena" wrote: > >> I had to shut my pc down the other day and when I rebooted it My computer >> failed to recognise it. It shows up in Device manager with a yellow >> exclamation mark. >> It gives an Error 31 message that it cannot load the device driver files >> because of a conflict with another device. >> >> Nothing else shows a conflict. I thought it may be the drive. I changed it >> out. No joy. I changed out the cable, still no luck. I removed the device >> and drivers for the floppy and the floppy controller. Windows reinstalled >> them witht eh same problem. The controller is built into the SIS chipset on >> my MB. I figured the problem was the floppy controller. >> >> I ordered a USB floppy drive and installed it. Windows is giving me the >> same error on it. It is refusing to accept the usb driver that came with it >> and insists the manufacturer is: (Standard floppy disk drives) and type is >> :Floppy disk drives. It gives the correct location as:on Sony USB Floppy. >> >> It keeps reinstalling the windows driver no matter what I do. >> >> Please help ASAP. I need the floppy drive to transfer files to my >> embroidery machine for work. with your win2000 CD in hand (preferably slipstreamed with the same service pack you're using on the computer hard disk)... drop the CD in the tray, run: sfc /scannow sounds like the windows driver itself got corrupted in a scandisk, bad sector on the hard disk, or otherwise unable to really work with the floppy. that's probably why no matter what hardware you use it still is giving you problems... probably something software related (drivers that are on the HDD, corrupt windows, maybe?) Couple ideas... ymmv
I worked out it is the windows SP4 that is corrupted. It won't even let me open add/remove programs to uninstall it. The disk came with SP3 and will not over write SP4. As soon as I finish the work I am doing this week, I will copy my drive to my USB HDD and format this one with a clean OS. Thanks for replying. Judi "Tim Judd" wrote: > xxena wrote: > > Ok some more info... > > > > I used my old drive with windows 98 loaded on it to boot and it recognized > > the hardware just fine. this rules out a hardware problem. It is definitely > > a windows 2000 problem. The event log gave me this message: sysdex FDD > > Failed to load, Event ID: 7026. A search of microsoft KB didn't turn up > > anything helpful. Any ideas? > > > > "xxena" wrote: > > > >> I had to shut my pc down the other day and when I rebooted it My computer > >> failed to recognise it. It shows up in Device manager with a yellow > >> exclamation mark. > >> It gives an Error 31 message that it cannot load the device driver files > >> because of a conflict with another device. > >> > >> Nothing else shows a conflict. I thought it may be the drive. I changed it > >> out. No joy. I changed out the cable, still no luck. I removed the device > >> and drivers for the floppy and the floppy controller. Windows reinstalled > >> them witht eh same problem. The controller is built into the SIS chipset on > >> my MB. I figured the problem was the floppy controller. > >> > >> I ordered a USB floppy drive and installed it. Windows is giving me the > >> same error on it. It is refusing to accept the usb driver that came with it > >> and insists the manufacturer is: (Standard floppy disk drives) and type is > >> :Floppy disk drives. It gives the correct location as:on Sony USB Floppy. > >> > >> It keeps reinstalling the windows driver no matter what I do. > >> > >> Please help ASAP. I need the floppy drive to transfer files to my > >> embroidery machine for work. > > with your win2000 CD in hand (preferably slipstreamed with the same > service pack you're using on the computer hard disk)... drop the CD in > the tray, run: > > sfc /scannow > > > sounds like the windows driver itself got corrupted in a scandisk, bad > sector on the hard disk, or otherwise unable to really work with the > floppy. that's probably why no matter what hardware you use it still is > giving you problems... probably something software related (drivers > that are on the HDD, corrupt windows, maybe?) > > Couple ideas... ymmv >
