8KHA+ Floppy Problems...

[Jasmine]

I've tried two different cables (round and flat), all combinations, round the wrong way etc. It works sometimes, (if I just leave it alone) and other times I get an error at startup about not detecting the floppy (no 80 pin cable or something)

Anyone know whats going on? Could it be the floppy drive is fawlty, or mobo? When I put this system together at first everything was perfect (no random reboots or anything -seems to be common with this mobo, just mouse light stays on)

Specs:
Epox 8KHA+ (U=)
SCSI:
Teckram 390U3W
Seagate cheata 15000
Floppy: Mitsumi
+unclocked+

 

[panhead49]

i've talked to some one else with the same problem with a floppy........he ended up rma'ing the board for other problems and all is well now.....i would try another floppy drive first before doing anything else.....there cheap....good luck

 

[Shuelessjo]

Same problem here. My first Epox8KHA+ did not recognize my floppy and gave the same error message. My new board recognizes it but does not let me boot from it. I have tried to boot from it using the WinXP Pro boot disks, wtih no luck. It just bipasses it like there was no disk in there. And I was able to put all the information of the 6 XP boot disks on my HDD that I am using in that system using an external USB case connected to my laptop (that is how I xfered the info). When I reconnected the HDD and tried to startup the compuer with it booting from the HDD (I just connected it normally through EIDE cabling) it did not boot from it. I think I have 2 bad boards in a row.

:frown:
-Why did I stray away from Intel CPUs and chipsets?-

Joseph

 

[xtreme2k]

You guys better believe me. One of the plugs on the floppy cable given is actually REVERSED. The you need to get yourself a new cable. I was mucking around with this issue until I actually compared the cable given and the OLD cable I had. AND THERE IT WAS. EPOX COULDNT MAKE FLOPPY CABLE CORRECTLY.

 

[Shuelessjo]

Dam! That is one thing that I forgot to check!

Thanks for the info xtreme2k!


Joseph