Bad mobo?

[Travis McGee]

Well, my floppy controller was acting flaky when I first built this thing
(MSI k7N2 Delta), but now the bios doesn't see it at all. I was trying to
install XP, BUT I need a floppy to load the sata driver.........so it won't
boot.

Anybody know a good Socket A mobo? (I've tried switching out all the floppy
stuff already)

Thanks!

 

[Frank McCoy]

Well, my floppy controller was acting flaky when I first built this thing
(MSI k7N2 Delta), but now the bios doesn't see it at all. I was trying to
install XP, BUT I need a floppy to load the sata driver.........so it won't
boot.

Anybody know a good Socket A mobo? (I've tried switching out all the floppy
stuff already)

Thanks!

You could try a replacement controller card instead.
Put in the new card with (usually) IDE, Floppy, and printer ports; only
enable the floppy on the card; while disabling the floppy on the
motherboard. A bit cheaper; and a handy tool to have around for
debugging. Yes, they still have PCI versions. Also useful for extra
printers; allowing access to LPT2:

 

[spodosaurus]

You could try a replacement controller card instead.
Put in the new card with (usually) IDE, Floppy, and printer ports; only
enable the floppy on the card; while disabling the floppy on the
motherboard. A bit cheaper; and a handy tool to have around for
debugging. Yes, they still have PCI versions. Also useful for extra
printers; allowing access to LPT2:

Personally, I'd buy a USB floppy drive (actually, I did!). I no longer
need floppy drives in my PCs: the usb drives works for all systems on
the rare occasions it is required.

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[Frank McCoy]

Personally, I'd buy a USB floppy drive (actually, I did!). I no longer
need floppy drives in my PCs: the usb drives works for all systems on
the rare occasions it is required.

Good thought.
Or, (Like I did, when I needed a "B:" drive on a mobo that didn't
support two floppies [WHY I never did figure out]) if you have a spare
IDE connection, you can get an IDE floppy.

However, a USB drive floppy will only work as boot device if the BIOS
supports such. You'd need to check that first.

 

[Ian]

Well, my floppy controller was acting flaky when I first built this thing
(MSI k7N2 Delta), but now the bios doesn't see it at all. I was trying to
install XP, BUT I need a floppy to load the sata driver.........so it
won't
boot.

Anybody know a good Socket A mobo? (I've tried switching out all the
floppy
stuff already)

I had the same problem with my Abit NF7 S v2. I slipstreamed the sata
driver into the XP cd using nlite;
http://www.nliteos.com/

worked like a dream.

HTH