ultra ata 133 card, need help installing drivers without floppy

[infinitwisdom]

i just bought a SIIG INC. ultra ata 133 card. the ata cable came apart and the floppy dont work. so my question is once you have located and saved the drivers to your computer running xp pro, how the $%^& do you install them? i tried putting them into the driver cabinet, to no avail.

any suggestions? i thought of borrowing a floppy drive for this, but the disk has two rings on it so i am not sure even if that would work.

thanx, wisdom.:( :mad:

[repo man11]

You may be able to get it to work by installing it, but not attaching the cables, and booting into Windows. Windows should detect it, and look for the drivers. Once it installs, power down and try attaching your drive to it.
This may do it, you could try it and see.
Otherwise, the floppy drive/F6 method is the only way I know of, same as with RAID drivers.

[skab]

If put your drivers in a folder then goe to device manager, pick out your controller from the list then choose properties and update driver, when you get the next screen choose to choose location and then browse to the folder you put the drivers in. Make sure you unzip the drivers into that folder first if they are compressed. You maight have to pick that folder a couple of times as the process goes on.

[infinitwisdom]

Originally posted by repo man11
You may be able to get it to work by installing it, but not attaching the cables, and booting into Windows. Windows should detect it, and look for the drivers. Once it installs, power down and try attaching your drive to it.
This may do it, you could try it and see.
Otherwise, the floppy drive/F6 method is the only way I know of, same as with RAID drivers.

wisdom here, the problem is that bios is telling me my floppy fails error code (40). it wont read ANY floppy and windows xp pro doesnt have any drivers for this device that work. SO ONCE AGAIN FOLKS<>HOW DO YOU INSTALL DRIVERS DOWNLOADED FROM THE INTERNET, THAT DO NOT HAVE AN EXECUTEABLE FILE TO AUTOMATICALLY INSTALL THEM FOR ME?

surely someone out there can teach me this, lord knows i have tried every other option available take one, replacing the floppy drive. the disk itself, as i said has two "grooves" in it and may not work with a brand new drive.

thanx for trying, but seriously, you must not assume people are so stupid that they can't figure out your suggestions which are very simple trouble shooting measures. most of us on the forums have a very good knowledge of computers, i just don't know how to install from an internet file the driver i need (which i have stored on my hard drive) since it has no executable file to do it for me.

peace out, wisdom.

[infinitwisdom]

Originally posted by skab
If put your drivers in a folder then goe to device manager, pick out your controller from the list then choose properties and update driver, when you get the next screen choose to choose location and then browse to the folder you put the drivers in. Make sure you unzip the drivers into that folder first if they are compressed. You maight have to pick that folder a couple of times as the process goes on.

wisdom here,


i have tried that, i even put the drivers on a cd-rw and tried to install from that location, again no dice. i am about to give up. my floppy system is screwed. i put my brothers new floppy and cable in here and it still won't recognize the floppy (an ordinary vannilla flavored 1.44 mb floppy). in bios i get error code (40) and once the puter boots the light stays solid even when no disc is present. i don['t think this is a drive problem, i think it is either a motherboard problem or my recent upgrade to windows xp pro (ive been using it for years now (2)) is what is causing the floppy problem. i have been in device manager and looked at both the floppy controller and the floppy in there and it reports they are working just fine, go figure.

i really need help before i loose my sanity, wisdom.

[mbentley]

Originally posted by infinitwisdom


wisdom here, the problem is that bios is telling me my floppy fails error code (40). it wont read ANY floppy and windows xp pro doesnt have any drivers for this device that work. SO ONCE AGAIN FOLKS<>HOW DO YOU INSTALL DRIVERS DOWNLOADED FROM THE INTERNET, THAT DO NOT HAVE AN EXECUTEABLE FILE TO AUTOMATICALLY INSTALL THEM FOR ME?

surely someone out there can teach me this, lord knows i have tried every other option available take one, replacing the floppy drive. the disk itself, as i said has two "grooves" in it and may not work with a brand new drive.

thanx for trying, but seriously, you must not assume people are so stupid that they can't figure out your suggestions which are very simple trouble shooting measures. most of us on the forums have a very good knowledge of computers, i just don't know how to install from an internet file the driver i need (which i have stored on my hard drive) since it has no executable file to do it for me.

peace out, wisdom.

actually sometimes it's better so assume people are "stupid". it's better to try everything (since we are all human last time i checked and we do make mistakes) and go into detail about it so we don't have to try to explain anything later... as for the floppy; you've already tried differnet cables apparently and, switching the cables around (maybe you have the cable plugged in backwards)?
as for the drivers, what do the file names look like? there should be an inf file... if not, it definitely won't install... double check the drivers and be sure that they match your model of card... simple stuff, yes it is, but that stuff is too often overlooked...

[infinitwisdom]

the verdict is in folks, my floppy controller on the mobo is dead. there are not any inf files on the website. there are setup and sys (system) and OEM files. is it possible to get a floppy drive that will work without the mobo controller? like one of those zip drives or something, that is a subject i know little about because i have never experienced this problem before. there has to be a way to do this, otherwise i have a perfectly good $40 card that i will never be able to use.
thanx for your support folks, wisdom.

[mbentley]

i would say maybe a usb floppy??? they tend to be a little expensive, especially compared to floppy drives, but if your bios supports usb drives, then it will be fine...

[infinitwisdom]

my bios is the latest version for an ASUS P3B-F mobo. this board was bought in 1999. it is an iron clad board, i think i accidentally hooked it into (the floppY) a overvolt circuit i made to run some fans faster off a second psu. i have two psu's to take some of the load off the main psu. secondary powers only fans now, but in the past i have used it to power some if not all drives. my mistake. i do have two usb ports, and my board now has support for the new 2.0 standard. so i don' t see any reason why this wouldn't work.


thanx, wisdom.

[infinitwisdom]

wisdom here,

i finally figured out why i could not download and install. i had made a partition for xp that was too small for it to function well as the pageing file didn't have enough room. i had to reformat and reinstall. afterward i was able to download and install the drivers for this device. strangely enough it won't boot from channel one, but will from ide channel two. i think i got a product that saw some punishment during shipping and will likely have to return it for a new one. either that or i got the wrong driver, but i do have a direct phone number to a tech support guy i can call tommorrow to find out if i got the right driver. he doesnt' seem to be very smart, definately not very helpful.

i bought a 256mb stick of memory the other day only to get home and put it in and find out that my computer would only recognize half of it. my other three sticks are those with chips on both sides, this one has chips only on one side which is why it doesnt work right, fortunately i can return it and get the "right stuff".

thanks for your suggestions, wisdom.