Floppy Not Working

[nqbus]

All,

Tried two different out of the box drives no luck. SATA installation of course requires the floppy to work. I get no light at all.

I keep seeing "is it enabled in BIOS?". Where exactly can I be sure that it is? I do see that Floppy A says 1.44in , 3.5.

In the Advanced BIOS settings my board (K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI has a setting called "seek floppy". Settings are enabled and disabled. Syas setting to enabled will make BIOS seek floppy drive A before booting system. It is currently disabled. Is this my problem?

help?

NQ

 

[JimPhelpsMI]

Hi, The only other things I can think of: The A: drive floppy should be on the part of the flat cable that has a twist in about 6 wires. That is, the twist should be between the floppy and the MB. It it has no twist then normally it would be the B: drive. That's called "Cable Select". If the cable is put on backward the Floppy light will be on all the time the power is on. If a boot disk is in the drive when the cable is backward the disk will be blown and will no longer boot but the drive will not be damaged. Last but not least, the drive may be bad. Luck, Jim

 

[jackschmittusa]

"floppy seek" is not the problem. This is an old legacy setting that you don't need enabled. Some mbs have an option to enable/disable the fd controller. Depends on the mb which section it is in. I just fired up an old Emachines mb and it was under "advanced". It might be under "onboard peripherals" on another mb.