Microsoft KB Archive/106216

= Windows NT Stops Responding when You Write to Floppy Disk =

Article ID: 106216

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.1

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This article was previously published under Q106216



SYMPTOMS
If you have a system board with an AMI ROM BIOS on it Windows NT may stop responding (hang) when you try to write to a floppy disk drive.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, try one of the following:


 * Slow the system down by turning off caching, disabling shadowing and/or using the turbo button.
 * If that approach works, enable the caching and shadowing again. Then, in the advanced chip set options, try setting the I/O recovery options to their maximum value. According to AMI, if I/O recovery time is insufficient, device drivers, particularly for UNIX and XENIX will fail. The exact description of the I/O recovery options vary from one BIOS model to another.

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Keywords: kbhardware KB106216

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