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Installed Motherboard - Please Help!

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bad1550

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I installed a new motherboard last night (XFX Mach 4) along with Celeron 2.0 and 512 DDR PC2100. This is a micro ATX replacing my E-Machines 400idx.

Bios had detected my Hard Drive and DVD and CD Burner but I receive an error message: Floppy disk Fail 40 and cannot load windows after hitting F1 to continue - the screen goes black!

My setup is:

Pri Master = Hard Drive
Pri Slave = None
Secondary Master= DVD Drive
Secondary Slave= CD Burner

A prior error message along with Floppy Fail 40 was :Secondary IDE Channel no 80 conductor cable installed. I solved that message by replacing my old IDE cable with new cable from new mobo. Also, my power cable to case has different config pins from old mobo to new. My old mobo had 1 strip of 8 pins across and new mobo has 2 sets of 4?

I am a novice at this and would appreciate any help to get my PC up and running!

Thanks,

Bob

 
Ouch. You REALLY need to do some more research before you go any further.

I'm not sure what you mean by the "power connector". Since you got it to boot at all, I assume you don't mean the power connector from the power supply. If you mean the connectors for the buttons on the case, there's no standard for those. Usually the cables have separate connectors for each function (power, hard drive light, reset switch), but your case may have something odd. You may have to manually cut the connector apart in order to put it on the separate pins, but as long as you can connect the two pins for the power button, that's all you absolutely need.

The floppy fail 40 message means your floppy cable is backwards, or it might be bad. Make sure that it's inserted in the motherboard with the red stripe on the cable's edge lined up with the number 1 pin (or an arrow sometimes) on the board. If you have to reverse that, try booting after you do it. If it's already right, then just reverse the connector on the floppy drive itself.

The 80 pin cable problem is due to certain cables having a notch sometimes to use for "cable select", but it seems to cause issues. I've had it be a problem once for a system I worked on, resolved it by using a different cable.

Once you get that all working, then an issue booting into windows is another issue entirely. Try Safe Mode first off.
 
Yes,

The Power problem was releated to switch, not the power supply!

I will give your suggestions a try!

Thanks,

Bob
 
Verify that your hard drive, DVD and CD burner are all set correctly as master and slave. Disconnect the DVD and burner, and bring up the board with just the hard drive and floppy. Then, add one laser drive at a time. There may be an interaction between them. If so, try moving one or the other to be a slave on IDE channel #1 with the hard drive.

If the above doesn't resolve the problem, this sounds like a defective motherboard, specifically, the hard/floppy control system, so you may have to return it.

Good luck. 🙂
 
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