Floppy Drive Active at Welcome Screen

[jordanf1]

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?

[chorro]

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.

[jordanf1]

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.

[chorro]

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??

[jordanf1]

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!!

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.

[chorro]

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.