EPoX 8K7A floppy drive problem

[darkjester]

I tried doing a search for this, because I remembered reading something about this a while ago, but nothing comes up. Anyway, please see if you can help me out...

My problem is simple: when I put a disk into my floppy disk drive, it ruins the disk (makes it RAW, and other computer can't read it then) if I try formatting it. If I try reading it, then I get an "unknown floppy drive response" error.

I want to install the latest BIOS, but I can't without use of the disk (or can I... anyone know some crazy trick or something? ). I currently have the level right before the latest one (I'd check the latest version number, but I can't connect to EPoX's website for some reason), running W2k.

Please help! Thanks!

 

[yourharddrive]

now the epox's do this too....what has the world come to

 

[filmore crashcart]

Have you tried another floppy drive in your computer? I just installed a 8k7a and you made me panic. I just formated a floppy and unzipped the latest bios to it. It had no problem doing that and reading from the floppy. Wish I could give you some input to your problem.
Oh yeah, I'm also running win2k.

 

[rushr]

My Sony floppy drive won't work with my 8K7A.It won't boot to it with a startup disk and I get strange errors in Windows. I swapped it out with a Mitsumi and it works fine. The Sony does work perfectly in my other system. Would like to know the cause of this also. Anybody?

 

[darkjester]

Actually, my floppy was working fine for a while, but then the day that the new BIOS came out, I tried to flash it, and the disk drive was all gimpy. It hasn't worked since...

I'm going to see if I can get my hands on another floppy, but this was working just fine before (and I believe it's a Mitsumi, but I'm not certain).

Please post any leads to solving this.

Thanks!