Bad mobo?

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 wrote:
> In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt "Travis McGee" <nothere@aol.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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:
>


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.

Ari

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"Travis McGee" <nothere@aol.com> wrote in message
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> 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

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Ian