Muse
Lifer
I'm rebuilding my main PC. So, I just posted my new mobo, a Gigabyte K8N Pro (yes it's an old board but it's new-in-box). I posted the board with 1 stick of DDR, CPU-HSF, vidcard+monitor, my new Corsair PSU, and I hooked up a floppy drive.
I heard no beep but figure that's because it's not hooked up to a speaker. It seems to post OK and I can go into the BIOS or it will try to boot from floppy. I have a handful of system disks, all flavors from Win95 to an XP boot disk. Also have a few Win98 boot floppies.
Every time I try, I get errors as shown in the Topic Summary:
Disk I/O error
-OR-
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
I tried two other floppy drives, get the same problems. Haven't succeeded in booting to floppy a single time. The BIOS is configured to boot to floppy first.
Now, the crazy thing is, I get similar errors on my other PC, and it has all different equipment, is running XP Pro. Sometimes it boots OK from some of these floppys, sometimes I get similar error messages. In fact, I took a new floppy out of a box I have had for a few years, formated it as a boot floppy in my XP Pro machine, booted to it on the same machine OK, and then go back into XP Pro and it says the disk isn't formatted and it offers to format it for me! It just happened!
The reason I wanted to boot to floppy is so I can flash the BIOS of the new mobo. Now, I'm kind of skitish about it because I don't want to wreck the mobo. It does have a dual BIOS so there's some protection against an error, although I'm not confident about dealing with that.
Any thoughts appreciated.
I heard no beep but figure that's because it's not hooked up to a speaker. It seems to post OK and I can go into the BIOS or it will try to boot from floppy. I have a handful of system disks, all flavors from Win95 to an XP boot disk. Also have a few Win98 boot floppies.
Every time I try, I get errors as shown in the Topic Summary:
Disk I/O error
-OR-
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
I tried two other floppy drives, get the same problems. Haven't succeeded in booting to floppy a single time. The BIOS is configured to boot to floppy first.
Now, the crazy thing is, I get similar errors on my other PC, and it has all different equipment, is running XP Pro. Sometimes it boots OK from some of these floppys, sometimes I get similar error messages. In fact, I took a new floppy out of a box I have had for a few years, formated it as a boot floppy in my XP Pro machine, booted to it on the same machine OK, and then go back into XP Pro and it says the disk isn't formatted and it offers to format it for me! It just happened!
The reason I wanted to boot to floppy is so I can flash the BIOS of the new mobo. Now, I'm kind of skitish about it because I don't want to wreck the mobo. It does have a dual BIOS so there's some protection against an error, although I'm not confident about dealing with that.
Any thoughts appreciated.
