Sudden Floppy DEATH!!!???

[Eastlot]

I upgraded my Compaq Presario 5528 from 75mHz to 166mhz. That required me taking my floppy drive out for a minute, so i could get to the power source for the heatsinkfan. When I booted up, my BIOS recognized the lack of floppy drive, updated, and booted up fine.
Then when i put the floppy back and the fan in the same power source using a "Y" connector, the BIOS recognized the floppy, but the floppy was not working in windows. It was called a "removable drive a" in My Computer. I checked all connections (I know where the first pin goes; but i still tried all possible connections). I even tried updating BIOS manually, bcuz it got progressively worse, where the BIOS didn't even recognize the drive, and booted w/o it. The light on the drive is irregularly ALWAYS on, when the floppy is connected, and it makes a weird sound. I tried two other floppy drives on this computer, with two different ribbons. The BIOS recognized NONE. They both made a slight sound when I turned my pc on; that's how I know it got power. The ribbon was connected fine too.


I have NO idea what the matter is. My only possible diagnosis is that the place where I plug the ribbon is messed up (I think it's called an FDC?). But I didn't tamper with the mother board.

Has anyone had this problem???
Any possible solutions?

If my puter dies or something, I have no way of booting up without a floppy drive.
I don't wanna screw my computer up.

If anyone could help, I would GREATLY appreciate it!

Thanks for your time, Mark.

[Bleeding Edge]

If you checked and rechecked all the connections and the bios isn't seeing the floppy drive, purchase another floppy drive and it will be fine.
Coincidence does happen.

[bighammer]

or you bent a pin

[Eastlot]

hey, thanx a lot for the advices.

I actually managed to fix it with a 34 pin floppy from my 286.

It was kinda weird... if i used all 34 pins, my bios recognized it as a 5.25" drive. I had to bend the second pin for the bios to recognize it as a 3.5 floppy. Also, it was an IRQ problem as well.

Heh, thought I messed up my puter. Thanx again!