Help! Computer Glitch

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DaveinNY

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Yesterday while trying to load some photo's from my 3.5 floppy drive the PC shuts down, like instantly. So I try another disk and same thing, almost like it has a dead short. I took it out cleaned it and same results. OK so today I go to Best Buy and pick up an external USB 3.5 floppy and install it. Brand new out of the box floppy drive still crashes the computer.
Thinking it is a software issue, I run a security scan with the disk in the drive, when the scan got to the floppy drive the old girl crashes again. Running a scan without the disk and everything is fine. I love my old floppy, I get the best photo's with my old Mavica. Please Help.
 
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I'm willing to bet it's a faulty floppy driver. You should see if you can get an updated one online, Windows can usually check for them automatically? Bad drivers are a very common reason for Windows failure.
 
You need to check your event viewer. Go to Control Panel >Administrative Tools>Event Viewer

Then look in the Application and System trees for the errors and exclamation points. These will point you to whatever dumped the system. That should help you start figuring this out.

But why are you still using floppies? Slow, low capacity. Time is past to move up to something better.
 
I don't want to yell 'fire' but it could be your power supply dieing. I've had the same thing happen with my dvd drive.
Non essentials are the first thing to go as are dropping fan speeds. If your computer has at all been sounding different, I suggest taking it someplace and having it tested. A new power supply won't cost you more than $50, assuming you don't have a gaming rig and need a lot of power
 
Something I do every two or three months is take off one of the side panels of my computer case and blow out the innards with canned or compressed air. It's amazing how much dust, lint, and even insects will collect inside your box. I especially blow out the power supply and other internal fans. Keeps things much cooler and also removes any low leakage shorts that may have developed from crud on circuit boards.
 
Thanks Guys, phatch, I did as you directed and found out that a driver for the devise is the culprit. Now I have to find and download an updated driver. I still use the old 3.5 because my favorite camera, Sony Mavica, takes a 3.5 floppy.
 
Glad it worked out. Good luck on a driver. Sounds like it may be old enough hardware that it's no longer supported.
 
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