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problems with presario 1925 laptop
a few months ago, I bought a used Presario 1925 laptop, with the detachable
DVD/floppy drive wedge. Other than the battery only giving about 5 minutes of operating time, and the DVD only playing about 10-15 minutes before it starts skipping and finally locks up, I've been pleased with it, and have simply deleted the DVD software, since it can read CDs without any difficulty. However, this morning I noticed that it no longer reads the floppy disk. I hear it spinning, but after a few moments I get a "disk not available" message. I ran a cleaning disk thru it, but that didn't help. The floppy drive shows up in Windows Explorer, but the laptop won't boot from a diskette on power-up either. I took the wedge apart, but everything looks to be connected, and the CD drive is still working. Looks like I might be in the market for a new wedge, although for now I can still use the laptop. My question: is there some known failure mode that could account for the floppy drive suddenly failing, when it has rarely been used? m9876c at yahoo dot com NOTE: the only thing I can think of is that a couple months ago, I applied a bios upgrade from the Compaq website, supposed to improve the power handling. It went smoothly, but that involved booting from the floppy drive, and I have to admit that was the last time I used that drive, so maybe the bios change caused the problem??? |
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