p3bf doesn't see floppy drive

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

got a friends pc that I built for him, P-3 450 @600 on an asus p3bf with 1005bios (not beta) and it won't recognize the floppy drive no matter what, tried switching drive and cable with no luck

system has:
Western Digital 10 gig harddrive primary master
LS-120 primary slave
and Smart & friendly 4x4x24 cdrw secondary master

any thoughts???
jim

[Jammrock]

You MUST use the floppy connector AFTER the twist in the cable. Otherwise it won't work. Do you have detect floppy setup in the BIOS?

Also, if the floppy light is always on after you boot the computer then the cable is on backwards. Turn it around and it should work fine.

Now if you are using the LS-120 as your floppy...then I would suggest moving it to Secondary Slave. You will also need to autodetect it as an IDE device in the BIOS (so enable the Secondary Slave device in the BIOS). To boot from the LS-120 you have to manually set the LS-120 as a bootable device in the Boot options in the BIOS. I haven't fiddled with a P3B-F in a while, but if memory serves me correctly, you may need to disable hard drive booting and floppy booting to boot from the LS-120 drive, depending on where it is in the boot order menu.

Tell me if this helps.

Jammrock

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Athlon 650, Biostar board, 128 MB PC133 (Crucial), G400 32 MB DH, SB Live! w/ Digital I/O, 10/100 NIC, lots of case fans, etc...

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

thanks Jamm,
Tried all the above except using the plug after the twist, unfortunately that didn't do it either
when the comp first starts up the light on the 3 1/2" floppy goes on as if it's found it but it won't boot from it then the light goes out and once windows starts its not there, also tried removing the LS-120 and cdrom bu5t no different
jim

[Technoid]

Check if there is a setting in bios like
"Show no FDD for Win95"
It shuts the fdd of for the benefit of some microsoft test program!

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INTEL PIII550 MSI 6163
G400Mill 32MB SGRAM + RRG
SBlive
256 MB RAM CAS2
43GB HDD Space!(Actual 40GB) (13+30 Quantum drives)
Pioneer 104S DVD 10x CD 40x SLOT IN
SONY CRX100E 4/2/24 CDRW

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

well, one of the other things I needed to do for him was install another cdrom for copying, err, backing up disks and like magic, the floppy started to work!?! don't you luv it when you fix something without knowing how you did it
thanks guys!
jim

[LAMFDTK]

I get paid for doing that !

[Jammrock]

So do I! I'm much better at fixing things in front of me though. That's why I do desktop support, not phone support.

Jammrock