Article ID: 106216
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.1
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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