Upgrade problems with 1.2 T-bird

[jcwagers]

Hey everyone. Yesterday I went through the process of upgrading my Athlon 700 to a 1.2 gig T-bird. I'm using the Asus A7V133 motherboard. I have been able to format the hard drive BUT...it won't let me use the windows startup disk to put windows back on. I suspected that the cable might have been on backwards because the floppy light stayed on the whole time so I changed it. Now it comes on and acts as though it tries to read the floppy drive and then the light goes off and it won't do anything else. If I hit the space bar a few times the floppy drive light comes back on and it continues to "read" the disk....but....still nothing. I don't have anything in the computer but a DVD drive, hard drive, and my new Radeon LE video card. Got any suggestions? I'm going to try a few more things tonight when I get home but I really don't know what the problem could be. My hard drive is not an ATA100 drive and I also get the "no ATA100 drives detected" message but it goes on past that. I know that when I first booted the computer it booted at 900 mhz....and sometimes if I just turn off the power, it reverts back to 900 mhz.....rather than 1.2 gig 266 fsb. I would like to get this lined out as soon as possible. Thanks in advance!

jcwagers

 

[Demon-Xanth]

You might still have the cable upside down (on both ends) and make sure the drive is on the end with the twist.

 

[JonB]

Try a BIOS clear. Use the jumper on the board to "clear CMOS" or whatever they want to call it. Your processor upgrade means that the BIOS needs to re-detect a lot of settings.

Don't you hate floppy drive cables?

 

[jcwagers]

My other motherboard was a K7V so the bios settings should be ok, I would think. I'll check more tonight when I get home. Yes, floppy drive cables tend to be a pain. Thanks for the help!