3 1/2 drive problem

I'm having problems with the 3 1/2 drive on a 8565C HP not recognizin
a disk in it. When I select the drive I get the message "A: is no
accessible. The device is not ready." I've used Device Manager an
removed the the floppy and have reset Bios to "default". Still n
go. I replaced the cable. Then I replaced the drive. No luck.
Any suggestions on a next step

Thank

Does the system read a floppy diskette in DOS mode, i.e. if you place a bootable
Windows setup diskette in the A: drive, does it boot to the C: prompt? If so,
then the drive is good, and Windows is somehow messed up. If not, then the
drive, cable or motherboard I/O chip is bad.

If the drive is good, reset the system CMOS in the BIOS setup. If the
motherboard BIOS setup also allows you to reset the ESCD (aka NVRAM), do this
also... Ben Myers

On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 04:30:33 GMT, lid (Hawkeye) wrote:

>I'm having problems with the 3 1/2 drive on a 8565C HP not recognizing
>a disk in it. When I select the drive I get the message "A: is not
>accessible. The device is not ready." I've used Device Manager and
>removed the the floppy and have reset Bios to "default". Still no
>go. I replaced the cable. Then I replaced the drive. No luck.
>Any suggestions on a next step.
>
>Thanks
>

Ben, thanks for your response.

The system will not read the the disk in any mode most of the time.
It sporadically reads the disk. The drive is recognized by bios an
set up in cmos as a:. It spins up everytime it is selected. Thi
leads me to believe it could be the I/O chip you mention