My A64 FX-53 and Gigabyte KN8NSP-939 just arrived!

[StormPC]

Check to make sure RAID is enabled in the BIOS. If it isn't the drives will always show up as 2 separate drives. Make sure your drives are not plugged into the SII connectors, but are plugged into the SB connectors. If you made the array that's probably not the issue though unless you made it in the Sil utility instead of the nVidia utility.

Check your floppy to make sure it's functioning properly. Check your disk to make sure it's not defective. Make sure you choose nVidia Series ATA(XP) driver. When you see the drivers listed during WinXP setup, select the nVidia controller and then go back (hit "s" again) and select RAID Class Drivers. You need both to run nVidia RAID. Leave the floppy in the drive until the first reboot.

[Svenn]

It appears to be the floppy, but I don't know what is wrong with it. It appears to function as normal, it lights up and sounds like it's trying to read, but it just doesn't seem to do anything even with a boot disk in it. It was working fine before I got this new mobo....

[StormPC]

Originally posted by Svenn
It appears to be the floppy, but I don't know what is wrong with it. It appears to function as normal, it lights up and sounds like it's trying to read, but it just doesn't seem to do anything even with a boot disk in it. It was working fine before I got this new mobo....

Check for bent pins and cable orientation.

[Svenn]

Been checking that. Checked the power too. Replaced floppy cable to the one that came with the motherboard. Everything seems like it works fine but it just doesn't seem to ever find anything.

[StormPC]

Probably a little dirt on the heads. Do you have any compressed air to blow into the drive?

[Svenn]

No compressed air... but I tried taking the cover off and blowing into the drive, heh. It's like it doesn't even try. It lights up like it's reading but it doesn't sound like it's even trying to read.

[Svenn]

Well, I replaced the drive and it does the same thing... it has to be a motherboard problem or something....

[Svenn]

This is very upsetting... I'm going on 12 hours now working on this system only to be held up by floppy issues.... ARGH!

I have floppy set to boot first, then cd, then hard drives. With a floppy in it goes straight to booting from the cd, and then when trying to install the RAID drivers it doesn't give an error about txtsetup.oem or anything, it just skips that and goes to asking to insert a floppy again.

[pkrew]

Did you check to make sure that the floppy is enabled in the bios.

[Svenn]

Of course, I've loaded bios defaults several times. Tried enabling/disabling floppy boot check, tried changing boot order, tried changing floppy type from 1.44MB to other options.

I can think of 3 possible things that could be wrong with it:
1) Conflict with another device (IRQ or other conflict)
2) bad floppy controller on the motherboard
3) I somehow have messed up the connection (there's only 1 way for the power and floppy cables to attach though)

God I hope I don't have to send this board back just because of a stupid floppy problem...

[Svenn]

With hard drives and cd-rom connected, I get the normal disk boot error. As soon as I reconnect one of them I stop getting it... I'm assuming that means it's working when I disconnect them. This is really weird...

[Svenn]

Nevermind, it's still not working. I get the disk boot failure with or without a disk in, and with a boot disk it still won't boot... Argh!

[EnJoY]

It really sounds like you've got the floppy cable plugged in upside down...try flipping it around on the drive end. Best of luck with the whole process...I myself without a working system at the moment over stupid things.

[Svenn]

It's impossible to have it plugged in upside down... it only fits one way! The cable is notched and so is the drive. And when the cable is upside down the light just stays on, whereas this it only comes on when it's supposed to be reading.

[EnJoY]

All the floppy's I've owned have never been notched...just bare pins...which is how it's possible to plug the cable in upside down and have the light be on all the time and not just when it is reading. Just thought I'd say something incase you had forgotten about that.

[Svenn]

My floppy is notched so that you don't put the cable in the wrong way... Like I said, if it was in upside down, the light would just stay on, but that's not the case here. Thanks though

[EnJoY]

NP, best of luck getting it up and running.

[iboomalot]

my floppy cables are not notched but my IDE are

one of the holes is plugged so it only goes on one way

and it has a flipped set of wires in the middle and a red strip down the side.

check and make sure you got the right cabling.

[BJOkarma]

just a random possibility.....
do you have a magnetically driven pump of some sort? It could be interfiering with your floppy drive....like I said, this is just a random possibility....i know mine has interfiered with my floppy drive.....or maybe im just dumb....

[Svenn]

Originally posted by iboomalot
my floppy cables are not notched but my IDE are

one of the holes is plugged so it only goes on one way

and it has a flipped set of wires in the middle and a red strip down the side.

check and make sure you got the right cabling.

Heh, IDE cables won't fit in a floppy slot... and I'm sure they're floppy cables. I've tried 2 different cables.

[Svenn]

Oh, and I have no pump. I have a prometeia and the rest of the stuff is air cooled.

[StormPC]

Sounds like the motherboard's floppy controller is dead.

Did you mail/online order it or get it at a store?

[iboomalot]

I assumed you would know but suggested it anyways

let us know how it goes I might be getting one of those MOBOs

my A8V isn't liking OCing over 220 mhz making the HHD freak out and memory at 230+ isn't liking the voltage limit either.

[Svenn]

Originally posted by StormPC
Sounds like the motherboard's floppy controller is dead.

Did you mail/online order it or get it at a store?

Got it from zipzoomfly... that's about the only thing I can think of now. I tried running with just processor, memory, and video card and it still didn't seem to work so it's not hardware conflict. I've checked and double checked the cables and even tried another floppy so I can't see it being misconnected... Argh, I really don't want to have to send this board back over something as stupid as a broken floppy controller...

[Svenn]

er, I got it from excaliberpc, heh.