topic Vaio PCG FR415B - noisy floppy drive on shut down in PCs & Accessories

Vaio PCG FR415B - noisy floppy drive on shut down

vista360 — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:32:57 GMT

Can anyone help - I have a vaio laptop around 9 motnhs old and only recently it has started to find a disc in the floppy drive on shut down - the noise will last around 5 -7 secs - any ideas on how to fix this????:smileyconfused:

Re: Vaio PCG FR415B - noisy floppy drive on shut down

William — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:59:24 GMT

I am guessing that there is not really a floppy in the drive and the computer is looking for one at shutdown? Hence the noise.

Try putting a blank floppy in the drive next time before shutdown.

If there is a floppy in the drive try taking it out before shutdown.

My laptop does not have an inbuilt floppy drive but I seem to vaguely remember this problem at college where we had to save work to a floppy. If I took the disk out before shutdown the computer would start looking for one during shutdown, because although I had finished saving work the program was still open when I shut the computer down.

Wiliam

Re: Vaio PCG FR415B - noisy floppy drive on shut down

seb21__ — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:11:40 GMT

That's right William. I have same problem (when I have a Floppy in the drive)

PCG-FR315S

Re: Vaio PCG FR415B - noisy floppy drive on shut down

kee-lo_ — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:24:14 GMT

It's normal guys.