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Calling all hardware geeks

if your floppy drive isnt working, check to make sure you have the cable in the right way (not backwards or upside-down).
 
Thanks for all your suggestions guys. I've given up for tonight. Sometime tomorrow night I'll work on it again and let you know how things go.
 
The_Tecknishen said:
if your floppy drive isnt working, check to make sure you have the cable in the right way (not backwards or upside-down).
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And if you plug it in backwards and/or upside down, you can toast the drive. Depending on the floppy make, it can happen in like mere moments. Been there, done that, and seen it done by others too many times to count.

Fatty, you noted that three of your four computers the floppy drive light is stuck on... if the light is stuck on, either the cable is currently connected upside down, or it was previously connected backwards and the drive is now toasted.


If he's managed to do this on three out of four systems in his possession, I would make NO assumptions about his setup... Guys, you are jumping to conclusions awful fast in this thread!

-Cmos checksum error occurs after clearing the cmos on boards. He cleared the cmos as requested, and then got the error. Sounds like that is operating as expected.
-The only real symptom we have here is that the computer is having trouble booting from this one HD.

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Fatty,
-what is the make and model of your hard drive? (We need to verify your drive jumpering.)
-You have the NF7 2.0 without serial ata, right? (there are like 6 different NF7's!)
-Did you install it using drive overlay software that might now be interfering with the boot process?
-What bios version is installed right now? (unless its old, that's probably not the problem)
bios list here for NF7 v2.0 board: http://www.abit-usa.com/downloads/bios/bios_revision1.php?categories=1&model=124
-What OS(es) is installed on the drive?
-Did you install the motherboard carefully so that there are no standoffs in the wrong place, possibly shorting out the board? (you could be touching one/some of the traces to the drive)
-Did you try another power supply? (just because its rated well enough doesnt mean that it isnt either defective, or it may have taken a power hit and is now not able to put out the needed power)
-Did you try another hard drive on this board? Maybe the drive is borderline... able to function on some systems, not on others
-Did you clean all the old thermal material from the cpu and heatsink, and re-apply an appropriate amount when re-installing? (cpu may not be stable, or even damaged if done wrong)


Fatty, I would strip the system down to motherboard, cpu, heatsink, ram and vid card. go into the bios and verify that ALL of the settings are setup correctly. for example, make sure that boot order is setup correctly, and the on-board drive controller is active. Dont set the cpu, memory, and other settings agressively, just set em to defaults for now. After you've verified the jumpering of the drive, by giving us the maker and exact model #, try to boot using a KNOWN good IDE cable.

Then, get a floppy drive that works connected properly and update the bios (if needed)

If that's no good, I would try swapping out all the parts, one at a time... try another hard drive, try another power supply, other ram, hell try another cpu... maybe yours is toasted in some bizarre way that wont let the boot process initialize.

If I was you, I'd want to eliminate all these possibilties before sending another board back.
 
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