Floppy Problem

[tacoeater]

Got a Dell Optiplex in the shop and I cannot get a floppy to work in it. I have tried several used drives as well as a brand new one and they all turn a while then the green light goes off and that is it. I know boot floppies don't last forever and have tried several different floppies. I have tried replacing the cable as well. I entered the bios and turned off floppy support and re-enabled it. Nothing seems to work. What could be wrong?
Thanks,
Alan

[bailey]

floppy controler on the mother board could be bad.

[tacoeater]

thanks bailey,
that was one of my suspicions.
could anything else like bad memory do this?

[bailey]

I don't think so, anything else would give a error of some kind.
just as a experment try removeing the controler from the device manager after looking at its status, and reboot, if it is good, it should be reinstalled by the system, if not you should get some lind of error.

[tacoeater]

Nothing worked till I put in a different hard drive. The dead hard drive was somehow preventing the floupie from working.
weird !!