Yes I believe I have tried skipping the floppy, but I'll give her another try... I just setup a Soltek KT8-PRO-939 with a Winchester 3000+90nm, a gig of Corsair 3200, ATI 9250 128mb, 2x Samsung 80GB SATA drives, it fired right up took the drivers off the floppy & setup XP "BAMM" what a breeze...