First post, by aha2940
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Hi guys
Recently I received an AI5TT socket 7 board (manual here: http://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/archive/Tmc%20- … ual/AI5TT12.PDF). I have tested it, and so far it *seems* to be working fine. I've tried the AT keyboard port, ps/2 mouse port, USB ports, both IDE channels and *floppy* port. Now, I also have 4 floppy drives. 2 known working, and the other 2 were a gift in unknown condition, I had never tested them, nothing strange. I tested them with this socket 7 board, and they throw "General failure reading drive A:". I was told in these forums that this was not something I could solve by cleaning the heads, and drives were dead. Bad news I guess. So, I plugged a known-working drive to the board. I used it to successfully install DOS 6.22 on the socket 7 PC, and copy a couple files from another PC I have. Now, I just tried to copy some more files, and the drive is also throwing "General failure reading drive A:" errors. I didn't even shutdown the machine since it was working fine!! I just copied the soundcard driver, it copied OK, then I went to my other PC, copied some more drivers and BAM! now it won't read any disk. So, my questions are:
- Can something inside the board be damaging the drives?
- Maybe the Winbond W83977TF controller is bad somehow?
- I am afraid to try my last working drive there, I do not want it to get fried too.
- Am I being paranoid and it is just bad luck / coincidence?
I do not think the power supply is bad, since no other components are even acting up, and I do not think the floppy would be the most delicate component here.
Any thoughts / ideas / opinions are appreciated, thanks.