Floppies still no worky A7N8X DX

[Lopaka]

Tried swapping floppy drives and floppy cables. Flipping the cable
into the drive results in the drive light constantly on, so I assume it
was right to begin with. (Red lead to side nearest pwr conn.) Either
way, Box crashes when selecting left or right click on"A" drive.

Do I need the ribbon cable with the "crossed over" leads on the
floppy side, or a straight thru? any help appreciated, I am stumped.

Thanks, <Lo


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AMD 2600+ ASUS A7N8X DLX 2.0 NForce2 Bios 1005 W98se
512M DDR 400 Single (Kingston)
GeForce4 MX 440
Antec PlusView1000 AMG case
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[Andrew]

Tried swapping floppy drives and floppy cables. Flipping the cable
into the drive results in the drive light constantly on, so I assume it
was right to begin with. (Red lead to side nearest pwr conn.) Either
way, Box crashes when selecting left or right click on"A" drive.

Is the A: enabled in the BIOS?

Do I need the ribbon cable with the "crossed over" leads on the
floppy side, or a straight thru? any help appreciated, I am stumped.

Crossed over at floppy end.

 

[Lopaka]

Is the A: enabled in the BIOS?

Yes, and also as first boot device, and Miss Post does not
report the floppy as "missing" although she did once before
when it was?

Crossed over at floppy end.

Looks like I may have to return this board? Are there other ways to
flash the bios etc.?

<Lo

 

[Rob]

If you have a CD burner you can make a bootable CD-RW with the BIOS file
on it. I did this the other day and it worked wonderfully. Remember to
set the CD as the first boot item when you're ready to go.

Rob

 

[Ben Pope]

If you have a CD burner you can make a bootable CD-RW with the BIOS
file on it. I did this the other day and it worked wonderfully.
Remember to set the CD as the first boot item when you're ready to go.

And you need to set it to floppy emulation too.

Ben

 

[P2B]

And you need to set it to floppy emulation too.

Ben

Huh? Are you saying the BIOS allows you to set the emulation type?

I can't imagine why it would, since the boot catalog on the CD contains
the emulation type for each bootable image on the disc.

 

[Ben Pope]

Huh? Are you saying the BIOS allows you to set the emulation type?
No.

I can't imagine why it would, since the boot catalog on the CD
contains the emulation type for each bootable image on the disc.

Thats what I meant.

Ben

 

[P2B]

Thats what I meant.

Ben

OK.

In the original context, I read it as "Remember to set the CD as the
first boot item" followed by "And you need to set it to floppy emulation
too".

Hence my confusion, since the former is a BIOS setting and the latter is
a CD writing software setting

P2B

 

[Ben Pope]

In the original context, I read it as "Remember to set the CD as the
first boot item" followed by "And you need to set it to floppy
emulation too".

Maybe I should have replied after the first or second sentance.

Ben