Floppy drive problem and memory question!!!!!!!!!

hi
i have a bit of a problem i cant get windows to allow my floppy drive to work, everything else works fine, the drive works and has been tested elsewhere, when i click on it in windows it say floppy drive needs formating and sometimes says there is no disk in there when the disk i have put in fully works and is full tested, please advise,
secondly i have 2*512 kingston pc3200 value ram 3-3-3 , i am currently running them and they are working fine and are very fast but when i do benchmarks it says they are running in single channel, just need to know if they are suppoused to be like that or can i get them to run in dual channel , and if so what will the diffrence be?
i would really appreciate if you could help me with these question please e-mail me at [email protected] if you wish to send me info or ask me any quetions, cheers

Hi
Floppy drive. Is the Floppy seek enabled in advanced bios features. Is the floppy set as a Boot Device. Is the floppy controller enabled in integrated peripherals, not on auto, but enabled.
Does your floppy cable have a twisted wire in it ?   Some older floppy drives have jumpers to set them to either Flp1 to Flp2.  Also if cable does not have twisted pair, you might need to set floppy swap as well.
This CPU and Mobo use single channel Ram by default, so no loss in speed.
cheers
jocko

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    The problem started a few days ago when I plugged my Zen in like normal to charge - it was completely dead - and after several few hours of charging, I was still unable to turn my device on. I plug the charger in and the device does recognize it, it powers on and I get the blue light and "Creative" logo on the screen. Then the little battery icon flashes between the green "charging" icon and the red "empty battery" icon. It will go on like this for hours. Normally it would only take an hour or two to charge but now I can leave it charging for an entire day then it goes dead right after I unplug it.
    My question is - based on user experience here - whether it's probably my battery or my device that is defecti've. This was a gift and I'm sure it is out of warranty, not that I'd be able to get the receipt even if it was. I've already emailed customer care. I'm just wondering what people's general overall experience has been with support and if it's even worth trying to go through the support channels to get it fixed. Thanks in advance.
    Kristal?

    I am having the same problems....only I can't even get mine to come on. I have only had this thing for like 5 months.....if I would have known I was gonna have this many problems.... I would have went with another brand. And it would really help if I could get someone to give me a straight answer when I call! I am SOSOSO irritated!!

  • E71x problem, and a question about 'physical damag...

    Hiya,
    Soooo I got the E71x in June, and I loved it, until about a month ago, it started frustrating me non stop.
    The phone will tell me that its battery is low after I've charged it completely, and have seen 5 bars worth of power for 30 mins;
    it will turn off without shutting down, without alerting me
    it will freeze, and won't turn off with the power button--the only thing to do is pull the battery out;
    it will tell me the sim card isn't registered and then turn off
    OR
    the screen will go blank, turn white, and display a message that says 'Insert SIM card' when the sim card is already in, and hasn't been moved or anything;
    the phone will die when I try to send text messages, call someone, or the first 30 seconds into a call;
    whenever the phone dies on me, I have to pull the battery out & then turn the phone back on, and when I do so a ghost image of whatever i had been doing before the phone died (the text i was about to send, for instance, or the home screen, or the 'insert sim card' screen) will appear for a second, pixelate, then vanish.
    I called AT&T, they do not believe that it is a charger or battery issue, since I've checked those anyway. My software is up to date, I've tried all the online troubleshooting tips. I've obviously dropped my phone before, who hasn't, but it was never anything *huge*, the phone never turned off because I dropped it, the battery never popped out, etc. It has fallen from my jeans to the floor, for example, that's about it. So there's no physical damage because of that. I have never gotten the phone wet;---the circle on the back of my battery is white, so it hasn't been exposed to liquid or heat or anything extreme. I don't think my warranty would be turned down for physical damage due to the above mentioned.
    However, I have a question if anyone who works for Nokia reads these boards; my parrot removed the 'p' key from the keyboard--just the key, the pad underneath works fine and is untouched, i can still type the letter p and everything--but the 'p' key, just that one, is missing. I can't find it. Would I really be denied my 1 year warranty because of that? is there anyway I can buy a key to replace the 'p' key so that I could send my phone to AT&T? all it would need to be fixed is a tiny dab of glue. That's it. I will be very frustrated if I can't get my phone fixed within warranty because of that key; I would be forced to get another phone, and I don't think my choice would be another Nokia. Please let me know what I can do about this problem, it's getting ridiculous, I can't even answer phone calls without my first rushed sentence being 'my phone might hang up on you but i'll call you back' anymore.
    HELP
    Solved!
    Go to Solution.

    hahaha no, it's not the e71x, it is a piece of popcorn she DEVOURED. She LOVES popcorn. MMMmmmmMMMM she says. Haha.
    @FastTortoise, I think a parrotlet might be a good fit for you, they were my pick because they have the same personality as a parrot (spunky, loving, fun, funny, etc) but they're TINY, and VERY quiet (comparatively::they've got nothing on cats). Check out this site for more info http://www.talkparrotlets.com/forum.php my name on there is brittany_lynn, you might be able to get my email from that site or from this, lemme know if you have ?'s or anything
    P.S. All birds need a cage, a parrotlet just needs a smaller cage.

  • Drive Storage and longevity question

    I LOVE my MAC PRO and am setting up some new drives and have a simple question:
    I have 1TB drive that houses all my most valuable work that I keep in an internal drive bay. I have a secondary 1TB drive that I intend to mirror the first drive. I can't use RAID in my Mac due to a current Pro Tools limitation. I use SuperDuper to image my drives.
    Would it be wise to just put the second drive into a second drive bay for easy mirroring or would external Firewire be better as far as longevity goes?
    I'm just worried that if they are both spinning and one fails, the second might fail at nearly the same time and I'd be screwed.
    External drive would be more of a pain in the arse to do my auto-backs, but it would allow me to turn the drive off while not doing weekly backups.
    What do you guys think? Thank you!
    Also is it more wise to do compressed image type backups, or uncompressed backups that I could access the files immediately with?

    Right, if it's not in 3 places it doesn't exist and yes I'm on a nice UPS system. I noticed my whole rig got much more stable after pure sinewave output upgrade too.
    So mirrored copies copy bad data. What method/software would you use or recommend?
    I was thinking about multiple compressed backups with different dates so if one goes bad I would revert days back.
    What eSata case do you use/recommend? I have a Venus eSata drive but haven't tried it yet, I couldnt get it to connect. Are there different eSata cables different from internal SATA connectors?
    Thanks much for your time and help.

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