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racketboy

Nov 3, 2003

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			Originally posted by Gallstaff@Nov 2, 2003 @ 06:41 AM



 I wish my floppy drive worked 



Why do those things fry every 3 years or so?

No floppy for me

The things are evil. At least Apple had the balls years ago to try to get rid of them

		dibz		Nov 3, 2003
			Another I'm building a computer topic My wife uses a 64Mb USB Flash drive for her floppy stand-in.

racketboy

Nov 3, 2003

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			Originally posted by dibz@Nov 3, 2003 @ 10:37 PM



 My wife uses a 64Mb USB Flash drive for her floppy stand-in.

yes flash drives are a beautiful thing.

I'm waiting for 512MB ones to get a bit cheaper.

my 32MB one is being well used by my wife.

Until I get a new one, I'm using my 4GB USB hard drive.

		Scared0o0Rabbit		Nov 3, 2003
			Another I'm building a computer topic The true greatness of the floppy comes from it's ability to just work... in virtually any situation, including situations where the cd-rom drive doesn't have drivers (like when you have to do an emergency boot into dos or something). I'd really like to see something come out that's like a floppy, but with speeds and disk sizes comparable to current cd burners. Then I think I could be happy. (it'd be helpful if they could be written to directly like floppies, and whatnot too).

		Alexvrb		Nov 4, 2003
			Another I'm building a computer topic You mean a true, driverless, industry-wide standardized floppy replacement? Yeah, I'd love that. No more of this zip crap. The LS-120 and 240 weren't a bad idea but they didn't get the traction they needed, and it would help if the whole industry pitched it. Get rip of floppy connector on mainboards and add another IDE channel (be it serial or parallel), or an entirely new replacement connector for a next-gen floppy drive replacement. The closest thing I've seen (in functionality) is one of those internal multi-format card readers. That way no matter what flash media you are using or lets say a guest is using, you could transfer data to/from your PC.

		Dud		Nov 8, 2003
			Another I'm building a computer topic Yeah floppys are ok, but I'd rather see them bring back the 5.25" Floppys :cheers Those things kicked ass. I got everything running with Windows 98 after trying six different windows disks, all devices are set up--except the integrated audio All the driver files are fine (I can get actual names if that helps): the nForce driver mm-something.vxd vmm32.vxd/ntkern.vxd (which I had to pull out of a .cab file manually from the Win98 disk, because stupid windows couldn't find it). I tried the update driver button after I got all the right files in but that doesn't do anything. Anyone who has an A7N8X Deluxe M-B with Windows 98, what do I have to do to get the everythings fine message?

		gameboy900		Nov 9, 2003
			Another I'm building a computer topic Umm...go to nVidia's site and download the nForce2 drivers for Win98. Those should work just fine.

Gallstaff

Nov 9, 2003

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			Originally posted by mountaindud@Nov 9, 2003 @ 12:00 AM



 Yeah floppys are ok, but I'd rather see them bring back the 5.25" Floppys :cheers Those things kicked ass.



I got everything running with Windows 98 after trying six different windows disks, all devices are set up--except the integrated audio  All the driver files are fine (I can get actual names if that helps): 



  the nForce driver



  mm-something.vxd



  vmm32.vxd/ntkern.vxd (which I had to pull out of a .cab file manually from the Win98 disk, because stupid windows couldn't find it). 



I tried the update driver button after I got all the right files in but that doesn't do anything. Anyone who has an A7N8X Deluxe M-B with Windows 98, what do I have to do to get the everythings fine message?

Wait you mean those big ass black things that LITERALLY a floppy disk?

I love those so very very much.

Dud

Nov 9, 2003

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			Originally posted by gameboy900+Nov 9, 2003 @ 01:47 AM-->QUOTE(gameboy900 @ Nov 9, 2003 @ 01:47 AM)Umm...go to nVidia's site and download the nForce2 drivers for Win98. Those should work just fine.[/b]

I tried that already, but I didn't have the right device loaders on my computer at the time (I think). I'll try it again, that would be pretty stupid if that's all I have to do.