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

[Bilvader]

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 now.

Anyone with any ideas, would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,
Bilvader

 

[GustySoul]

Maybe this answer is too simple but...

Did you check to make sure that the Floppy Drive is listed as a Boot Device in the BIOS? Perhaps it must
be the first Boot Device? Sounds like it is just trying to boot from the Hard Drive or something. Does the Floppy physically appear to be reading the disk (i.e. light & sound)?

obispo21

 

[Bilvader]

Thanks for your response, obispo. But yes, I tried it first, second and third as a boot device and the lights on the FDD do turn on and the drive makes some noise.

I even burned the contents of a fresh system disk onto a CD and made the CDROM the first boot device, but to no avail.

Keep the ideas coming, thanks.

Bilvader

 

[Tobbe]

I have the same problem. I cant boot, nor using the floppy in Win ME.

If I start the comp in safe-mode, the floppy works fine!!

I neeeeed help

/Tobbe