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HELP! Can't boot from floppy on Abit KT7 motherboard!

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jsbush

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I can't boot from any diskette when I turn on my computer. It's set to boot from floppy first and it reads the floppy for half a second then the light goes off when it's finding the boot devices, then it just loads my hd. The floppy works in windows 98 but not in win2k. I've tried two of the same kind of floppy drives and they both do the same thing. Could it be because pin one is away from the power cable?

Any help will be appreciated.



Edit: Floopy=Floppy. I knew something didn't look right 🙂
 
let me get it straight, it NEVER boots a boot disk during startup, it doesnt work at all in win2k, and it works fine in 98? This correct?
 
That's right. I had win2k and win98 on my hard from my old computer. Now I want to format but I can't boot from a floopy. I can read the floopy disk in win98 but not in win2k.
 
The red wire should nearly always be next to the power cable, flip it over anyway and check the M.B. connection as well.
Recheck the bios for a setting of 3.5" and 1.44
Try another bootdisk, or any disk and see if it's can be seen in Windows Explorer.

Edit:
It does work in W98, not W2K?
 
i've never heard of a floppy not working in one OS and working in another. Check your cmos again. Totally wierd. And live CRV said make sure the red stripe lines up with pin 1 on the floppy header and on the m/b. Sorry I couldnt be more helpful....
 
Yeah I know about the pin 1 and the red wire. I can't flip the wire because there is a little notce so on the cable! I'm using the ribon that came with my motherboard. I forced it the other way around and it still didn't work!

The bois is set to 3.5 1.44 I even try to enable all three boot devices as floopy and setting floopy B at 3.5 1.44 to and still no luck.
 
what brand are those floppy drives? I suppose it is possible that there is such a thing as floppy drive incompatibilities, that would be worth a good laugh. Have you verified that the drives work ok in another machine? Thats too wierd that it would work in 98 and not 2k. 2k rocks hard, i'm a born again windows fan... um ok maybe not fan, more like a person not expecting a crash every 2 hours....
 
Both those drives are Panasonic. When I unhook the hard drive is reads the floopy for half a second and then says No system disk found please insert a system disk and press enter or something like that.


And Pin 1 is away from the power connect the opisit end! 80% of the floopys I work with are like that.

That floopy was working on my Asus P3v4x and the other floopy works on a Shuttle Hot569 (socket 7 motherboard)
 
this may be unrelated, but sometimes overclocking would kill my mbr, and give me the no system disk (on a HDD though). I believe the command to fix it was fdisk /mbr, im not sure if that is applicable though.
I'm out of ideas, man. Sorry.
 
Well thanks anyways.

And I'm not overclocked at the moment because I havn't gotten my alpha yet. I have never overlcock this either!
 
Just for fun, try another floppy cable that will let you get the red wire towards the power connector.
Some floppy drives require a cable that has a split and twisted wire that goes towards the drive, with the red towards the power as well.
If you don't have another cable then carefully remove the notch on the connector with an exacto or knife and try it.
Remake a fresh boot disk on another machine.

Why it worked before though and not now doesn't make any sense.
 
Tried that. The light on the floopy just stays on. I've tried about 6 different floppy cables and like 5 different floopy drives (all the same make and model) and still no luck! I even tried two floopys with two boots disk and does the same thing. It clearly says on the floopy drive that Pin 1 is the other side! And that is how I was using it on my old motherboard.


I even enabled floopy boot seek or something liek that in the bois and it reads the floopy (well both of them) and still no luck! I'm guess this motherboard only works with the other model of floopys where Pin 1 is on the other side! I had one of those somewhere maybe it's on my server. I'll have to look.

Please keep the ideas coming.

 
Just to verify, I have the EXACT same problem, i dont know if you mentioned it, but in win2k, the floppy LED stays on all of the time. It is true, and I dont understand it, I have lived without a floppy for about 4 months now, so it dosnt really bug me.

Paul Hilgeman

p.s. mine is a KT7-RAID also, my CPU is a duron 700@1150, and I know that the floppy works too.

 
DiamondFire13: How do you format? How do you boot from floppy? Cus my win98 cd isn't bootable.


Edit: Do you need to boot from floppy to do a bios update? I'm pretty sure this would fix it!
 
DiamondFire, which are your voltage, multyplyer and FSB settings, and which cooler are you using?

Sorry this is offtopic, but I have the same problem with boot up disk, but in another format, I've posted another tread
 
well, the thing is that everything worked perfectly untill I put on win2k. I dont exactly remember how I got everything working properly, but i got by. I dont want to go back into win98, it is a terrible install and only runs for about 10 minutes at a time. when I did install, i first installed 98, then went to win2k pro and then installed win2k server. the floppy dosnt work in either of the 2 win2k instals and dosnt boot. Somehow it must have worked at some point in time so that I could install the two copies of Win2k. I apologize, i dont remember.

Paul
 
I am using a 11.5x multiplier, 100 mhz FSB PC100 ram, and the max voltage, i think that it is like 1.7 or somthing, it has been a while since I have been in bios.

Paul

BTW, I am not using the RAID and have 3 IDE devices on my system, adn I also have a separate SCSI card to handle DVD and CD-Burner

ya know, this really dosnt matter, I have lived without a floppy for so long now, i am quiestioning what i used to use it for.
 
The cable packs that come with the ABIT mobo are usually keyed incorrectly for TEAC and Sony floppies. Red stripe to the left, looking at the pins, forget the power connector position. Never seen a floppy with pin 1 on the right. Make sure that you are not flipping the mobo end to stop the lite from being on all the time. If necessary, cut off the palstic lug on the cable, its the only way to get the TEAC and Sonny to work.
 
I apologize if this should be assumed knowledge, but doublecheck the BIOS and make sure it is set to try other boot devices. And make sure that floppy is set to be the first boot device. Both of those settings have to be on for the floppy to boot. Please don't flame me, I just want to get the simple stuff out of the way. I am sure we all at one point in time were trying to turn on a brand new rig and forgot to connect the power cord.
 
DaddyG: I have a panasonic floppy! I also tried about 6 different ones all panasonic and they all had the pin1 to the right (far away from the power cable) I have seen very few floppys with Pin1 right next to the power cable. My floppy works just not in win2k and to boot. I found my windows 98 orignal cd so I booted with that and I was able to read A: drive.


lostnthenet: I have those enabled and still does the same thing, I have tried dissabling them and enabling one disabling the other still not luck.


I went to the Abit site to luck for a bois update. But of course I have the latest one. Well at least I think I do. You see it has the ID of UL and it is the same one as the one on the bottom of my screen on the bois. Heres what it says.

Edit: I was going to do a bois update but now I don't know what to do!

08/25/2000-8363-686A-6A6LMA19C-UL
 
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