MSI K8T Neo2-F Doesn't See Floppy

[21stHermit]

I can's get the BIOS on a MSI K8T Neo2-F to recognize the floppy drive. I've tried flipping the connector, no help. In one position, the floppies green light stays on. From past experience that's the wrong position. If I flip the connector, nothing.

I tried another floppy cable, no help. I have the floppy enabled in BIOS.

Am I missing something basic here?

 

[bob661]

Have you tried another floppy drive?

 

[Buz2b]

Originally posted by: bob661
Have you tried another floppy drive?

Agree, plus recheck your power connection to the drive.

 

[kindest]

Originally posted by: bob661
Have you tried another floppy drive?

same problem happened to me and thats what the problem was.

 

[Mrvile]

I have the same problem with the MSI K8N Neo2 Plat, luckily I never use floppies. My floppy drive would just sit there and grind until I pull it out, never reads it. I haven't tried anything else yet, I just took the floppy drive out of the damn computer because the big fat floppy cable was taking up too much room.

 

[21stHermit]

SUCCESS at Last!!!! What a pain in the A$$

Turns out this was a case of a little knowledge can be dangerous. My Celeron 400MHz also has an AMI BIOS but the syntax is vastly different from the current AMI BIOS. So while I thought I had the floppy activated, I did not. The two BIOS's start the same: Std CMOS Features and Advanced BIOS Features.

In the 1st are 5 fields, the 1st four of which are non-changeable reporting fields [Primary/Secondary Master/Slave] the 5th field looks the same and says floppy not installed. Turns out this is a changeable field to activate the floppy and the default was not installed.

In Advanced BIOS Features there was a field: Seek Floppy [Enable/Disable] I thought this field activated the floppy in BIOS. I have no idea now what this field does.

It get better or worse, ie the saga continues:

You cannot have PATA hard drives present while installing windows or the BIOS or Window? will label the 1st PATA HD as C: and Windows will get lost on its many reboots.

Bottom line, SATA will have to wait for Longhorn, just like USB needed XP.

Thanks to all who posted.

 

[Buz2b]

Originally posted by: 21stHermit

In Advanced BIOS Features there was a field: Seek Floppy [Enable/Disable] I thought this field activated the floppy in BIOS. I have no idea now what this field does.

Most likely this is the setting that enables the floppy seek during boot. It's handy if you want to boot to a floppy for whatever reason(s), like memtest86, formatting, partitioning, etc. However, the floppy would have to be set up as active in the BIOS first; as you found out.

 

[bob661]

Just disconnect the drive that's NOT going to be C: until after you install Windows, then set your bios to boot from your C: drive. It shouldn't be a problem. At work, I have one SATA and one PATA drive. The SATA is my C:. They play fine together. The board is a K8T Neo-FIS2R.