Diskette drive A error on Notebook

[gaarth]

My acer notebook TravelMate 723TX displays following error message during boot-up:
WARNING
ERROR
02B0: Diskette drive A error
WARNING
ERROR
Floppy Configuration Error - Device Disabled

Press <F1> to resume, <F2> to Setup


Is the floppy drive demaged or can I fix it?

I used Windows NT. Then I installed Windows 2000, because the notebook went crazy. All the desktop icons vanished, could not open files by doubleclick, no internet connection could be established, always &quot;RPCSS.exe&quot; errors and system was very slow.

After Windows 2000 installation, I got that error message. I scanned the notebook with Norton Antivirus 2001, AVG 6.0 and McAffee online scan. No virus was detected. Windows 2000 worked fine, except that the disk drive was disabled.

Then I used the recovery cd from Acer. Windows NT works fine right now, but disk drive is also disabled.

Any idea?

Thanks in advance!

 

[rommel]

i think really all you can do is possibly clean it...but i am not sure that would cause a boot up error messege usually it an error trying to read a floppy..but try it

 

[Gunbuster]

Try resetting the BIOS to defaults

 

[gaarth]

Thanks for your replies guys, especially to Gunbuster. This was really a golden advice.

 

[HaVoC]

With notebooks, the keystrokes or commands to enable FACTORY DEFAULTS on the BIOS can be invaluable! I had bad network card problems with my Compaq Armada E500 that were fixed when I simply defaulted the BIOS.

Notebooks are very finicky pieces of hardware.