Floppy drive problem in Win2000 and older

Hi,
I have a problem with floppy. Does'n regonize where problem is (Driver, Controller,BIOS...).
Configuration:
Intel Pentium 4 HT 2,8GHz Prescott (some models have 3,0GHz Prescott)
MSI 865PE Neo2 (MS-6728 Ver:2)
2x256MB DDR400 Kingstone working in DualChannel mode
GeForce 4 MX 440 with AGP 8x
3COM Fast Etherlink 3C905-TX-M
Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Digital (some models have Audigy)
Mitsumi (some models APLS) Floppy drive 3.5" 1,44MB
HDD Western Digital Caviar WD800JB or Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 60GB
Case with AXT Power Supply 300W (some models have Fortron)
Symptoms:
- Floppy read disks without problems on any OS
- Floppy can't write any data to disks on Win2000, Win98, SuSE91
- Floppy writing data without problem if you have WinXP-SP1 and SP2
- Data writed on any OS without WinXP making disk unusable (format on WinXP will make disk useless)
* Writing data - Create folder, copy files, format disk
Tested without resolution problem:
- Change disk is irelevant
- Change Floppy Drive is irelevant
- Change floppy data cable is irelevant
- Using WinXP drivers for FDD and LPC Controller in Win2000 does'n work
- Update OS (without XP) does'n help
- Updating BIOS does'n help
Thanx
Petr Lukas
CR Ministry of Health

Sorry, all periferials are set to enabled with defined ports etc.
Yea, trying move floppy between working pc and this crazy machines and its indepedent on any floppy drive, floppy disk and fdc cable... This is true...
When you boot another system, floppy is connected, reading is ok. But when you try to write anything, system report "Incorrect parameter" and that's all...
I managing network with Win2K/XP/98/Suse91/HP-UX10 with exchange/oracle and now more resolution of this type of problem, but this problem is absolutly independence on anything...
And with OS, this problem we have about 2 moths ago. Before I post it here, try install licenced systems on this pc. Trying win2000 (on this system we found the problem) after then try win98, suse91 and oldest msdos 6.22. No one of this systems can work. But last suggestion, Prescott procesor made in system some differet. Next week we try change processor type Prescott to Northwood. Some people say its work...
I post it new info, when we have new resolution of this (i think incredible) change processor.
To your
Thanx lot for your resolutions.... Anything we try........

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