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Check this if you are having floppy drive problems

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JimBob

Flightless Bird
Hello,
Finally found the cure for the floppy drive problems I was having. A kind
person posted the cure on the Windows 7 forums. Check your Bios and see if
you have "HPET Support" as an item under Power Management Setup. In my
Gigabyte Manual this is listed as support for Windows Vista operating system
only. As this is for Windows Vista only I do not understand why they have it
enabled by default. Anyway if your have it listed disable it and see if your
floppy drive problems go away.
 
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Tim Slattery

Flightless Bird
"JimBob" <user@home.invalid> wrote:

>Hello,
>Finally found the cure for the floppy drive problems I was having. A kind
>person posted the cure on the Windows 7 forums. Check your Bios and see if
>you have "HPET Support" as an item under Power Management Setup. In my
>Gigabyte Manual this is listed as support for Windows Vista operating system
>only. As this is for Windows Vista only I do not understand why they have it
>enabled by default. Anyway if your have it listed disable it and see if your
>floppy drive problems go away.

According to Wikipedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Precision_Event_Timer) HPET = High
Precision Event Timer. The page says that WinXP and Win Server 2003
cannot use HPET, but that Vista and Win7 can. I can't figure out what
it would have to do with floppy disks.

--
Tim Slattery
Slattery_T@bls.gov
http://members.cox.net/slatteryt
 
J

JimBob

Flightless Bird
"Tim Slattery" <Slattery_T@bls.gov> wrote in message
news:285gu5lmquseip3ds6fshllb6hjs64ips7@4ax.com...
> "JimBob" <user@home.invalid> wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>Finally found the cure for the floppy drive problems I was having. A kind
>>person posted the cure on the Windows 7 forums. Check your Bios and see if
>>you have "HPET Support" as an item under Power Management Setup. In my
>>Gigabyte Manual this is listed as support for Windows Vista operating
>>system
>>only. As this is for Windows Vista only I do not understand why they have
>>it
>>enabled by default. Anyway if your have it listed disable it and see if
>>your
>>floppy drive problems go away.
>
> According to Wikipedia
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Precision_Event_Timer) HPET = High
> Precision Event Timer. The page says that WinXP and Win Server 2003
> cannot use HPET, but that Vista and Win7 can. I can't figure out what
> it would have to do with floppy disks.
>
> --
> Tim Slattery
> Slattery_T@bls.gov
> http://members.cox.net/slatteryt

I have no idea either what it has to do with floppy drives either. All I
know is when it's enabled my floppy drive will not do a full format also
after copying a text file to the floppy disk I can open and display the text
without problem, but after removing the floppy disk from the drive and then
reinserting the floppy disk back into the drive Windows says the folder is
empty, but properties shows the info is still on the disk but will not be
displayed. After disabling HPET the floppy drive works normally.
 
T

Tom Lake

Flightless Bird
>> Precision Event Timer. The page says that WinXP and Win Server 2003
>> cannot use HPET, but that Vista and Win7 can. I can't figure out what
>> it would have to do with floppy disks.
>>
>> --
>> Tim Slattery
>> Slattery_T@bls.gov
>> http://members.cox.net/slatteryt
>
> I have no idea either what it has to do with floppy drives either. All I
> know is when it's enabled my floppy drive will not do a full format also
> after copying a text file to the floppy disk I can open and display the text
> without problem, but after removing the floppy disk from the drive and then
> reinserting the floppy disk back into the drive Windows says the folder is
> empty, but properties shows the info is still on the disk but will not be
> displayed. After disabling HPET the floppy drive works normally.

Here's a possibility: HPET can set to use either edge- or level-triggered
interrupts. Edge-triggered interrupts are also used by legacy devices,
such as floppy disc drives. If your BIOS sets HPET to use edge-triggered
interrupts, they will interfere with the floppy drive access. This also explains
why some systems have no trouble when HPET is active. Those systems
use level-triggered interrupts.

Tom Lake
 
G

gumby

Flightless Bird
On 10/05/2010 6:15 AM, JimBob wrote:
> Hello,
> Finally found the cure for the floppy drive problems I was having. A
> kind person posted the cure on the Windows 7 forums. Check your Bios and
> see if you have "HPET Support" as an item under Power Management Setup.
> In my Gigabyte Manual this is listed as support for Windows Vista
> operating system only. As this is for Windows Vista only I do not
> understand why they have it enabled by default. Anyway if your have it
> listed disable it and see if your floppy drive problems go away.
>
>
The real problem, of course, is that you are even still bothering to use
the defunct floppy drive when you can do anything a floppy can do with a
USB thumbdrive.
 
S

Slap

Flightless Bird
"JimBob" <user@home.invalid> wrote in message
news:hs90ut$vb1$1@speranza.aioe.org...
> Hello,
> Finally found the cure for the floppy drive problems I was having. A kind

A floppy drive? Can you still get blanks?
--
 
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LouB

Flightless Bird
gumby wrote:
> On 10/05/2010 6:15 AM, JimBob wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Finally found the cure for the floppy drive problems I was having. A
>> kind person posted the cure on the Windows 7 forums. Check your Bios and
>> see if you have "HPET Support" as an item under Power Management Setup.
>> In my Gigabyte Manual this is listed as support for Windows Vista
>> operating system only. As this is for Windows Vista only I do not
>> understand why they have it enabled by default. Anyway if your have it
>> listed disable it and see if your floppy drive problems go away.
>>
>>
> The real problem, of course, is that you are even still bothering to use
> the defunct floppy drive when you can do anything a floppy can do with a
> USB thumbdrive.

Uhh what if he has data or stuff on a floppy or two??
 
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LouB

Flightless Bird
Bob I wrote:
>
>
> On 5/10/2010 11:58 AM, Slap wrote:
>>
>> "JimBob" <user@home.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:hs90ut$vb1$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>>> Hello,
>>> Finally found the cure for the floppy drive problems I was having. A
>>> kind
>>
>> A floppy drive? Can you still get blanks?
>> --
>
> Of course, Sony says.....
> http://www.techspot.com/news/38717-sony-prepares-to-stop-manufacturing-floppy-disks.html
>
Any needing blanks post here. I have some
 
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Doum

Flightless Bird
"Slap" <slap@gmail.com> écrivait news:NWWFn.2203$rU6.254@newsfe10.iad:

>
> "JimBob" <user@home.invalid> wrote in message
> news:hs90ut$vb1$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>> Hello,
>> Finally found the cure for the floppy drive problems I was having. A
>> kind
>
> A floppy drive? Can you still get blanks?
> --
>
>
>

http://www.amazon.com/Maxell-1-44MB-Pre-Formatted-MF2HD-10-
Pack/dp/B00004Z5AS/ref=sr_1_96?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1273550724&sr=1-96
 
J

JimBob

Flightless Bird
"gumby" <gumby@here.com> wrote in message
news:hs9d0o$7pv$2@news.eternal-september.org...
> On 10/05/2010 6:15 AM, JimBob wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Finally found the cure for the floppy drive problems I was having. A
>> kind person posted the cure on the Windows 7 forums. Check your Bios and
>> see if you have "HPET Support" as an item under Power Management Setup.
>> In my Gigabyte Manual this is listed as support for Windows Vista
>> operating system only. As this is for Windows Vista only I do not
>> understand why they have it enabled by default. Anyway if your have it
>> listed disable it and see if your floppy drive problems go away.
>>
>>
> The real problem, of course, is that you are even still bothering to use
> the defunct floppy drive when you can do anything a floppy can do with a
> USB thumbdrive.

Thanks for your intuitive input gumby
 
C

Char Jackson

Flightless Bird
On Mon, 10 May 2010 20:53:38 -0400, LouB <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>gumby wrote:
>> On 10/05/2010 6:15 AM, JimBob wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> Finally found the cure for the floppy drive problems I was having. A
>>> kind person posted the cure on the Windows 7 forums. Check your Bios and
>>> see if you have "HPET Support" as an item under Power Management Setup.
>>> In my Gigabyte Manual this is listed as support for Windows Vista
>>> operating system only. As this is for Windows Vista only I do not
>>> understand why they have it enabled by default. Anyway if your have it
>>> listed disable it and see if your floppy drive problems go away.
>>>
>>>
>> The real problem, of course, is that you are even still bothering to use
>> the defunct floppy drive when you can do anything a floppy can do with a
>> USB thumbdrive.
>
>Uhh what if he has data or stuff on a floppy or two??

Generally speaking, if data can be read from a floppy diskette it can
be transferred to another, more convenient, medium such as a USB thumb
drive or a hard drive. Just because data is currently on a floppy
usually doesn't mean it needs to stay there.
 
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LouB

Flightless Bird
Char Jackson wrote:
> On Mon, 10 May 2010 20:53:38 -0400, LouB <Lou@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>> gumby wrote:
>>> On 10/05/2010 6:15 AM, JimBob wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> Finally found the cure for the floppy drive problems I was having. A
>>>> kind person posted the cure on the Windows 7 forums. Check your Bios and
>>>> see if you have "HPET Support" as an item under Power Management Setup.
>>>> In my Gigabyte Manual this is listed as support for Windows Vista
>>>> operating system only. As this is for Windows Vista only I do not
>>>> understand why they have it enabled by default. Anyway if your have it
>>>> listed disable it and see if your floppy drive problems go away.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The real problem, of course, is that you are even still bothering to use
>>> the defunct floppy drive when you can do anything a floppy can do with a
>>> USB thumbdrive.
>> Uhh what if he has data or stuff on a floppy or two??
>
> Generally speaking, if data can be read from a floppy diskette it can
> be transferred to another, more convenient, medium such as a USB thumb
> drive or a hard drive. Just because data is currently on a floppy
> usually doesn't mean it needs to stay there.
>
True, but how does one get the data off the floppies without a drive to
read the floppies?
 
G

gumby

Flightless Bird
On 10/05/2010 5:53 PM, LouB wrote:

> Uhh what if he has data or stuff on a floppy or two??

Then get a USB multi-reader that can read floppies too. Problem solved.
 
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gumby

Flightless Bird
On 10/05/2010 9:58 AM, Slap wrote:

> A floppy drive? Can you still get blanks?
> --

Only old stock I think. Sony just announced it is now completely dead
and obsolete and will no longer make them.
 
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