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Floppy Drive Accessed on Startup

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Hi!

Minor thing, does anybody else have the floppy drive accessed when you start up and exit GameEx? No biggie, but it's sorta annoying to hear the click click.

I did a forum search for 'floppy' and found two posts from folks who had the same issue, but no resolution...

Thanks!

-Matthew

lingpanda GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Hi!

Minor thing, does anybody else have the floppy drive accessed when you start up and exit GameEx? No biggie, but it's sorta annoying to hear the click click.

I did a forum search for 'floppy' and found two posts from folks who had the same issue, but no resolution...

Thanks!

-Matthew

Sounds like you have a path setup wrong. What is your floppy drive letter? Is it A or B? Look to see if you have a path setup to use that letter. Run the Verify Setup in Setup Wizard. See if it reports anything.

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Sounds like you have a path setup wrong. What is your floppy drive letter? Is it A or B? Look to see if you have a path setup to use that letter. Run the Verify Setup in Setup Wizard. See if it reports anything.

Thanks for the help! The floppy drive is set to A. I ran the verify setup (is there any other way to do it other than clicking Setup Wizard, then Advanced, then rapid fire through all the menus?) and it did find several paths that didn't exist (like c:\karoake, c:\DVD, etc) which I then removed. Still no go though, still accesses it. It actually accesses it twice on startup, once on exit. Heck, it even accesses it once when i run the Advanced Configuration. Maybe it's a .Net 2.0 feature...anytime you run a .Net application it wants to check your floppy just to see if anyone still uses one.

-Matthew

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Thanks for the help! The floppy drive is set to A. I ran the verify setup (is there any other way to do it other than clicking Setup Wizard, then Advanced, then rapid fire through all the menus?) and it did find several paths that didn't exist (like c:\karoake, c:\DVD, etc) which I then removed. Still no go though, still accesses it. It actually accesses it twice on startup, once on exit. Heck, it even accesses it once when i run the Advanced Configuration. Maybe it's a .Net 2.0 feature...anytime you run a .Net application it wants to check your floppy just to see if anyone still uses one.

-Matthew

I did some googling and I found this URL: http://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt/archive/20.../23/164045.aspx

Perhaps that's it. I'm not a .net developer (java, baby), so does anybody know how to run that little script to test if it happens?

Thanks in advance :)

-Matthew

Tom Speirs GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Thanks for the help! The floppy drive is set to A. I ran the verify setup (is there any other way to do it other than clicking Setup Wizard, then Advanced, then rapid fire through all the menus?) and it did find several paths that didn't exist (like c:\karoake, c:\DVD, etc) which I then removed. Still no go though, still accesses it. It actually accesses it twice on startup, once on exit. Heck, it even accesses it once when i run the Advanced Configuration. Maybe it's a .Net 2.0 feature...anytime you run a .Net application it wants to check your floppy just to see if anyone still uses one.

-Matthew

Really have no idea, and I have looked at it. Sorry. Does not seem to do it here.

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Really have no idea, and I have looked at it. Sorry. Does not seem to do it here.

Solved! After reading those sites about the getProcessByName(...) command checking the floppy drive, I found one site that had a microsoft guy saying it's being rewritten to NOT do that. So I went and checked my Add/Remove Programs and sure enough, 1.1 .Net, a 1.1 HotFix .Net and a 2.0 .Net were in there. I removed 1.1 .Net and no more floppy access. I would have thought installing 2.0 overrides/updates 1.1 but apparently SOMETHING from 1.1 was still being called.

So if anybody sees anything quirky, my suggestion will be "do you ONLY have .Net 2.0?"

Again, thanks for the help folks :)

-Matthew

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Thanks for the help! The floppy drive is set to A. I ran the verify setup (is there any other way to do it other than clicking Setup Wizard, then Advanced, then rapid fire through all the menus?) and it did find several paths that didn't exist (like c:\karoake, c:\DVD, etc) which I then removed. Still no go though, still accesses it. It actually accesses it twice on startup, once on exit. Heck, it even accesses it once when i run the Advanced Configuration. Maybe it's a .Net 2.0 feature...anytime you run a .Net application it wants to check your floppy just to see if anyone still uses one.

-Matthew

Select Custom from the setup wizard and select News Feed. Then just click past the first screen to get to Verify Setup.

Try pasting your log file here. Start/All Programs/GameEx/Log I doub't it show anything but worth a shot. Just go into GameEx like you would normally. Make sure to see if it accesses the drive. Then exit and paste the log.

Last thing would be to run a virus check.

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Solved! After reading those sites about the getProcessByName(...) command checking the floppy drive, I found one site that had a microsoft guy saying it's being rewritten to NOT do that. So I went and checked my Add/Remove Programs and sure enough, 1.1 .Net, a 1.1 HotFix .Net and a 2.0 .Net were in there. I removed 1.1 .Net and no more floppy access. I would have thought installing 2.0 overrides/updates 1.1 but apparently SOMETHING from 1.1 was still being called.

So if anybody sees anything quirky, my suggestion will be "do you ONLY have .Net 2.0?"

Again, thanks for the help folks :)

-Matthew

Yeah, GameEx and the config use that at startup. GameEx is compiled under .net 1.1 (next version will be 2.0) so that means it will always run under 1.1 if its installed. If 1.1 is not installed it will run under 2.0. Upcoming release will run under 2.0 only.

hansolo77 GameEx God (Top Rank)

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This is a stupid reply from me, but if it's really annoying you, just unplug the cables from the drive in the case. If you frequently need to use it (why?) for some reason, you could just disable the drive in the CMOS bios and then just enable it when you need to use it. If the drive's not "there", Windows (and any programs) shouldn't try to access it..

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You can disable the floppy drive in Device Manager. Incidently I used my floppy drive not so long ago and then it started to randomly get accessed all the time (even with no disk in it). I thought maybe it was the anti-virus software, or some "recently used" document causing the access. It could even be a broken drive, I'm not sure. But I have mine turned off in Device Manager now.

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The only ever time I use the floppy drive is when I need to install a disk driver when installing windows. I think with Vista you dont even need one for that now.

I normally disable it on most my systems too, but best way is just turn it off in the BIOS.

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