Floppy drive won't work with boot disk.

[imported_armoara]

I am building a server with an Asus P5AD2-E Premium Motherboard. I am trying to install the SATA/RAID drives in Windows 2003 for 4 Raptor 2 HDs with RAID 10 controller on the motherboard. Problem is, the floppy doesn't work. I have tried 2 floppy drives, both won't work. I have used a boot disk in another computer, works fine. But it won't work on the new computer, it doesn't boot, even when I press F8 and specifically select it to boot from floppy. Now, I have bought a USB floppy drive and it boots just fine. What could it be? An option in the BIOS? A chip on the motherboard that controls the floppy is bad (Super I/O? Is that what it's called?) I really appreciate it, I've been racking my brain over this for 2 days now. Thanks!

 

[montag451]

Check that you have the floppy enabled in BIOS.
Try another floppy cable, and make sure it is plugged in correctly.

 

[imported_armoara]

Tried another floppy cable...and it is plugged in correctly. Floppy enabled in BIOS, hmm...would that be on the page where it shows the floppy and IDE drives? And says what kind of a floppy drive it is? If so, it is listed as a regular 1.44MB floppy. Haven't touched it. Any other ideas?

 

[montag451]

Check elsewhere in BIOS where it might ask you 'enable floppy'?
or 'Floppy A or B'?

 

[imported_armoara]

Weird thing is...I can see the floppy drive trying to be accessed (light blinks and I can hear noises) when the proper time comes (i.e. to boot, or when Windows installation tries to access it for drivers)? That means both the power to the drive, ide cable, and bios settings are correct, right? Floppy I/O chip on the motherboard isn't working? I already updated to the latest bios version also, that didn't fix anything.

 

[montag451]

More likely to be 2 floppy drives are bad.

But with the same error? I dunno.
Can you just try the floppy disk in another computer, just to make sure.
And while you are at it, it wouldn't hurt to test a floppy drive in another computer as well.