Floppy Drive Active at Welcome Screen

I have recently upgraded from ME to XP Home and have noticed my floppy drive searching at the point my users appear on the welcome screen.

I have searched the net and this site and tried about everything there is to solve this problem. The only software I had installed around the time I noticed this was Office 2000 and AVG Antivirus. I had also made a startup floppy and AVG rescue disks. (Those being the only times I have used the floppy drive since installing XP).

This is what I've tried so far:

- Cleared out recent documents
- Turned off all startup programs that load with windows via MSCONFIG (incl AVG)
- Disabled floppy drive seek in BIOS
- Searched registry for references to a:\ (there were none)
- Up-to-date virus scans

Can anyone offer anymore suggestions?

how about disabling the floppy feature of checking the floppy drive each time the computer starts?? It should be in the device manager under floppy drive or disable write-caching.

The floppy drive didn't have that option in the device manager. But the hard drive had the write caching enabled so I turned it off, but that didn't do anything.

have you tried disabling the floppy seek or check floppies for virses option within AVG??

Have you tried reattaching the floppy ribbon cable or trying a different ribbon cable??

Ok ... I was thinking that this problem wasn't here when I installed XP so it had to have been something I did after that. So I uninstalled AVG, rebooted and it worked!!:D

Then I reinstalled it ... still ok, then did the automatic virus update, rebooted, and now it's doing it again!!:(

As AVG is a free version and doesn't come with tech support, I guess there is nothing much I can do. There is no option to turn off checking the floppy drive in the program, only an option to select which drives it checks when doing a complete scan, and a:\ is not listed there.

Thanks for your help chorro. I might just have to live with it for now, unless you or anyone knows how to fix it. But at least I know what was causing my problem.

actually you can take a look at this site. The only reference with AVG and XP I can find is the one about updating with service pack 1 and using AVG.