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Larry_OHF 08-07-2003 10:44 PM

<font color=skyblue>Every so often and for no apparent reason, my A drive powers on and then turns back off. While typing this, it has done so twice. What is making it do that and why? Can it be turned off in BIOS? </font>

Ronn_Bman 08-07-2003 11:04 PM

I know you can set your computer not to look to the floppy drive as a boot drive from BIOS, but I'm not sure you can just turn it off.

wellard 08-08-2003 07:55 AM

It sounds like some programme is searching for the A drive. but I have never heard of this before [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img]

[ 08-08-2003, 07:57 AM: Message edited by: wellard ]

andrewas 08-08-2003 08:04 AM

Has to be some program, but nothing standard does this normaly. Probably a background task, couldn't hurt to run adaware and spybotSD over it.

Harkoliar 08-08-2003 08:11 AM

are you connected to the internet? for some apparent reason, it does that when im connected to the internet.. sometimes.. (dunno why) someone scanning my HD maybe?

Larry_OHF 08-08-2003 06:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Harkoliar:
are you connected to the internet? for some apparent reason, it does that when im connected to the internet.. sometimes.. (dunno why) someone scanning my HD maybe?
<font color=skyblue>Yes, whenever I am setting here, I am online. So I would not know if it does so if I am not. I have cable anyway.

I have run adaware and spybot, and found nothing. I see no programs in any files that would want the A disk. There is no disk in the drive.</font>

Animal 08-08-2003 07:15 PM

Windows likes to use idle process time to re-organize files on the HD, and optimize the registry. Part of the re-organization, is analyzing recent usage of apps, some of which might have accessed your floppy drive.

Some real time antivirus software may be checking drives for viruses, or you may have a virus present. Run a full system virus check, if you haven't already.

The floppy drive can be turned off in the BIOS, but it will only work before you install Windows. Of course, you could always just unplug the drive. :D

Thoran 08-08-2003 07:16 PM

hmm... with no floppy in the drive you shouldn't see the drive activity light, sounds like maybe faulty hardware. Go out on a limb and spend $6.00 for a new floppy drive and see if that fixes it. [img]smile.gif[/img]

J.J. 08-09-2003 11:46 PM

mine does the same thing, is it an old machine? 3yrs or more?
with the award bios pnp, there is a setting in the cmos to look to the floppy during drive searches; there is also a setting that it look there first upon boot.

Bungleau 08-11-2003 12:45 AM

Some antivirus software may try to scan the floppy for files as well. Check your settings... :D

Sir Kenyth 08-11-2003 06:28 PM

This is usually caused by anti-virus and/or disk caching. I never thought about the fact that some computers don't do it. I think it depends on the floppy drive you have. Newer drives can detect media in the drive without spinning up. I think the old one's have to spin up to determine if there's media in the drive.


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