Lord Help Me! Floppy controller not present in 2000 Server SBS

[Guest_imported]

Hello all, I just blew one of our client's servers and installed afresh copy of 2000 SBS. Everything went smooth until I got to the point where I was setting up user accounts. SBS is a little different in that you create a user with a wizard (you can do it the old fashioned way but you lose a lot of ease and functionality). At the end of the wizard you are supposed to pop a floppy in and it will do its thing, then you run the floppy over to the workstation and run setup, it does the rest. Pretty slick I think. Anyways, at the end of the wizard it tells me that it doesn't detect a floppy drive. Upon opening my computer no floppy drive is shown. Device manager shows no floppy controller or drive. If you reboot the server with a non-bootable floppy in the drive it will give you a non-system disk error. So I know the floppy drive and cable are ok. Its just 2000 doesn't see it. I have looked at the hardware wizard to install a floppy controller, but its one of those things that is supposed to be installed by default. I am at a loss. If you can help me I'll buy you a case of beer! THANKS!

System specs:
HP E45 Server <-----Ancient
256MB ECC RAM
2x 10.5MB SCSI2 drives
HP Surestore DAT24 Tape backup
Windows 2000 SBS w/Service Pack 2
Exchange 2000
Generic 32x CD-ROM

 

[FilthPig]

Have you put a bootable floppy in and had it boot? Perhaps it's working enough to try to boot off of, but not enough for Win2k to see it as a functional device. I also suggest dropping another floppy drive that you know works into it.

Also check your event viewer if you havn't already. If windows is indeed seeing a failure in the hardware it's likely to be reporting it. Marc Creviere

 

[CaffieneNnicotine]

Thanks for your response. It will boot from a floppy every time without fail. I have indeed tried another floppy drive and cable just to be sure, but that didn't seem to solve the problem. I actualy tried to install a Floppy I/O card in the server to work around this problem, but the thin wouldn't even post with it in there. The floppy drive worked beutifully with NT4 SBS, but now with 2000 on it, it chokes. Anything else you might be able to recommend will be appreciated. All Complaints Will Be Routed To /dev/null

 

[FilthPig]

Only other thing I can think of is upgrade your BIOS. Marc Creviere