Re: Bad mobo?

In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt spodosaurus <spodosaurus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Frank McCoy wrote:
In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt "Travis McGee" <nothere@xxxxxxx>
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.

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.

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