New build A:drive problem

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The problem is.. i dont have one! and my new system worked fine for a while now it says "drive A is not ready, it may be open" or something along those lines and you have to click cancel twice every shutdown. i dont even have a frickin A drive. disabling it in bios refuses to boot into windows. any ideas?

opteron 146
asus a8n32
2gb ocz pc4000
 
what about reordering your boot sequence so it doesn't check for a floppy, before your harddisk?
 
Sounds like you have some type of program (maybe even spyware) that's hardcoded to write to the A drive when you shutdown.

If you have an idea of what it may be try uninstalling it. If not, do a spyware check.
 
its a brand new pc i just installed yesterday. the only things on it is NOD32 antivirus, some spyware checkers and sygate firewall. have tried putting boot sequence in different orders. and another problem i thought id fixed keeps coming back. system hangs at boot sometimes saying checking NVRAM forever.
 
Get
Ad-aware, MS Antispy, and AVG free edition from Grisoft
Run those
Ribs
 
i dont have any spyware. i havent even been online yet.

update: fixed the floppy by just disabling it. tried to do that earlier but didnt know where to look. now just the nvram. anyone know what it is? is it a ram issue? it better not be... ocz pc4000 off ebay i cant take it back.
 
Its your antivirus software. Most of them check if there is a floppy disk in the drive before shutting down. It sounds like your software isn't smart enough to realize there is no floppy drive.
 
that sounds like it makes sence, but ive solved that one now. the nvchecking is on bootup then it freezes, but only like 2 times out of 10. still would like to get my pc stable before i overclock or im askin for trouble
 
Just go into the bios and select NONE for DRIVE A. I had the same problem before and now that I disabled it in the bios, I dont even have the A: drive in "My Computer" anymore. Everything works peachy!!!
 
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