Recent content by Rick Dee

I appreciate all the questions and suggestions, but the fact is I purchased a motherboard with a floppy controller and a floppy disk cable connector. This is absolutely nothing in the literature and the user manual cautioning about the floppy disk drive not being detected on a Windows 7 x64 OS...

The motherboard is an ASRock 990FX Extreme4 which has a floppy controller and a floppy connector on it. Yes, I have the floppy enable in the UEFI BIOS and I can boot a MS-DOS disk from it. If I boot Windows 7 x64 in the BIOS mode on a MBR disk, the floppy disk is detected. If I boot Windows 7...

I installed Windows 7 x64 Professional on a GPT partition and am booting through UEFI. The floppy controller is detect but the floppy disk drive itself is not detected. Does anyone know why this is? I know I am not the only one with this situation.