Floppy Drive Problem (FDD)

I just put together the system in my sig last night. Except for me not understanding how to configure 2 SATA drives in non RAID mode (in another thread), I have only one other outstanding problem. I can't read floppies in my floppy drive (which I may need to do for that nVidia RAID stuff.... )
The drive is set to 1.44 MB in the bios. Originally I had reversed the cable on the back of the thing; the symptom of that was the access light came on solid. I then fixed that and got XP installed. Later, I put a floppy in to try it out, and when I click on the drive the access light comes on solid, the disk grinds, and very quickly XP comes back and says "Please insert a disk into drive A:".
I know the disk is good, it works in another computer. I then swapped out the floppy drive with another (thinking I may have fried the first with the backwards cable), but it does the same thing. I reseated the connecter to the drive and motherboard.
Device manager doesn't report any problems with the floppy.
Any ideas? Thanks!!

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Originally posted by dacull
What case do you have? I had a similar problem in that the screw offsets were incorrect for the face panel, and therefore the floppy drive button was always slightly depressed causing some problems.
You may be on to something there!
It's a Lian Li V1000.
I'll try monkeying with that. Perhaps the drive button is getting mashed in a bit more than it should....!
Thanks for the tip!

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No the lights on the drive flash on only as they would be expected to. The same problem with two identical mobos must be more than coincidence,unless I have the BIOS wrong. But Ive followed setting up the BIOS as it says in the handbook and all I get is the insert floppy message whenever I try to read floppy.
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