Floppy Drive not found

[moflats]

I have a problem with the floppy drive. The "A" drive doesn't appear in My Computer, but It says its working properly in the hardware manager. I have done the following:
Swapped out the drive with a known to be good drive, also the cable-same result, I have also checked the BIOS and it all appears normal. I also reinstalled the Bios from the MB CD thinking it may be faulty, all to no avail. Everest finds it, but Belarc doesn't, nor does PC Pitstop---any Ideas would be much appreciated.


My system is Win 2000 Pro, SP4, MSI Mother board, P4 1.6GHZ, a Hitachi 80GB HD, 768MB PC100 Memory, 1 DVD Drive + 1 DVD RW Drive, a NVidia Riva TNT2 Model 64 Video Card.

[Kov-Ice]

Was this a drive that was working at one time, but suddenly stopped? Or is this a new build? Does the drive work in another computer? Have you tried flipping the cable end-to-end?

[moflats]

The old drive made lots of noise, I didn't trust it so I swapped it out with another (two different ones to be exact), I have swapped ends on the cable, even went and got a different cable, I even tried to put the old drive back in and it does the same, I have however gotten everest and belarc to acknowledge there is a floppy , but went to PC Pitstop again and it still doesn't recognize that there is one.

[Joeberg]

I'm guessing that the light on the drive isn't consistently on - this would mean the cable is plugged in incorrectly -

Have you tried booting from the drive to make sure the drives are connected properly/fully functioning?

[moflats]

After much hair pulling and much investigation I found the culprit a pin broke off on the motherboard, as it was cheaper I got a USB floppy drive, problem solved sorta--I will replace the motherboard sooner or later. Thank you for all of your help.