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SinfulWeeper

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Anybody here have a S478 P4 based CPU (or Celeron) that I can borrow to test out a motherboard to see if it needs RMA'ing?
I took off the IHS off of my CPU for more OC'ability. Everything seems to have went fine, it crunches peachy and everything. Then the other day I went to flash the BIOS. I put in the floppy disk, set the BIOS to be able to boot from the floppy (A, CR-Rom, HD) but it continues to boot normally... with the exception of the floppy. It totally skips that part.

I double checked all the BIOS setting to make sure the floppy drive is enabled and it was. So I took the floppy drive out and tested it in another computer. It works fine, so I put it back in and it still does the same thing. So I replace the floppy cable (known good one) and that did not help either.

So I figured there are two possibilities. Either the floppy controller truely is bad and the motherboard needs RMA'ing. Or number 2 which is more likely is that when I removed the IHS from the CPU, it damaged it... but not entirely killed it.

Appreciate any help 🙂
 
The power lead to the floppy might be bad. Just had that happen to me. Some boards have a flash utility built in, a key stroke or jumper enables it.
 
That is what I thought too. It acted normal until I tried to read a disk. I tried to boot from floppy with a Gateway board it gave an error message and booted from the HD. Inside windows it would read most disks OK but it could not make a startup disk. It gave various errors disk not formatted, disk wrong capacity, disk damaged. I swapped out the power supply and it works fine. The connector may be too loose, fails under a load.
 
you sure you have the CMOS setup correctly
i think its the CMOS page IIRC, the one with the system time, drive a, drive b, etc
you have that set for your floppy there too?
i know you said you double checked bios but i have forgot to set that up when putting my floppy back in.
 
Does the floppy work inside the OS ? You can flash the bios from a bootable CD. I have done this. You will have to make the CD on another computer if the floppy wont work in windows. You need a working floppy drive to make a bootable CD. (kinda stupid) unless you can find an image file on the internet. ( ISO file type )
 
No, it keeps telling me to insert a floppy disk
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