Not a big problem, but every time I shut my computer down (Pentium Pro, 166, Win 95), it accesses the A drive (floppy)...started doing this a while back.

I find the machine accessing the empty drive at shutoff to be annoying. It does not log this drive when I start the machine. How do I get it to stop accessing the drive at shutdown...Any ideas...

Thanks again.

Mine started doing this when I first installed a virus scanner, it was checking the boot record of the floppy drive (first checking if a disk was in the drive)
Mine doesn't do this anymore since I switched to mcafee, do you have any software like this installed?

could be many other reasons..

[This message has been edited by DaRkLoRD (edited 05-16-2000).]

Yes. Disable "scan floppies on shutdown" in your virus protection settings.

hehe.. figured you'd answer this question too.. I'm glad my answer matched yours.

What is a Pentium Pro?

Sorry- just had to throw that in. My computer is Pro 200. My computer that died was a Pro on a P2 motherboard clocking a 233-400 MHZ. I would change the speed if I were playing games. But it now rests in computer heaven due to M/B failure.

Cooter--It's a Pentium that gets paid as opposed to a Pentium Amateur that doesn't.

I have the same problem (?) with my computer. I'm running a PII/400meg w/Win98. I figured it had to be something with the virus program as it started just after I downloaded Norton. It hasn't bothered me so I didn't worry about it. It's not going to hurt anything, right?

As usual, you guys were right again. It was the virus scanner.

To the moon, Norton...

Users of McAfee Virusscan should also shut off the scan scheduler unless you actually keep the computer running full speed 24x7. Scheduler has been known to cause problems with system sleep modes and hard drive sleep.

It tends to crash system sleep modes. It doesn't matter it you put the system to sleep or if it sleeps automatically via a timmer. the machine may appear to go to sleep but the system will actually crash either going to sleep or waking up. The result of this crash can even screw up CMOS settings on some computers.

It also poles the hard drive continuosly to check it's schedule. This keeps the hard drive from spinning down after periods of none use. (The HD won't spin down until the system tries to sleep the whole computer. At that time the first problems above will likely show up.)

When installing McAfee don't install "screen scan" This "feature" is mostly a giant pain.

DO keep system scan, email scan, and down load scan, on at all times.

NEVER EVER open an attachment unless you know what it is/does. EVEN IF ANTI VIRUS SOFTWARE DOESN'T FIND ANYTHING!

[This message has been edited by theogre (edited 05-17-2000).]