Weird problem with ASUS K7V and floppy drive - Please help?

Bilvader

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Putting together a system for my brother, as follows:

Asus K7V rev1.02
Thunderbird 800
Memman PC133 128MB
IBM 75gxp 30gb
hercules prophet2 GEforce Mx

Got every thing installed onto motherboard, even got cpu to boot overclocked
to 920 without even having to change any jumpers. Harddrive works in the
ATA100 and ATA66 master slots. But for the life of me I can not get the FDD
to accept a boot disk. I painstakingly went through every possible setting
within the bios, reversed a dozen times the unslotted FDD cables, took working
FDD's from two other systems - yet each time the system boots up to the FDD
boot seek and states (I paraphrase) "The disk is not a system disk, please
insert a system disk and press enter" I formatted and made boot disks of at
least 5 floppies, to no avail. Interestingly, if I reversed the cables or
removed the floppy disk early, the disk would become unformatted and require a
full format.

What is up with this problem? I have built dozens of systems, but I am
truly baffled this time.

Anyone with any ideas, would be very grateful.

Thanks,
Bilvader


 

rmblam

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Is that board an A7V??? If so then try and enable virus protection in the bios. With newer bios versions there is a bug that causes that error message if virus protection is disabled in the bios. If it is not an A7V then you got me.
 

velvetfreak

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Something could be acting up with the overclock. Try stepping it back down to default and see what happens. I'll be interested to see what fixes it.
 

natedog

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Make sure your floppy cable is in right, with the red side pointing towads the power. Right??
 

DaddyG

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Red stripe to the power doesn't always work for floppies but the red stripe on the left, looking at the rear of the drive is always correct. BTW, boot floppies usually get toasted in a drive thats got the cable flipped.