Floopy driver not working on AMD 64 system

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Ok so I have one of the socket 754 AMD athlon 3200+ processors and an Asus K8V SE Deluxe mobo. Now for my system since I use SATA HDD's, when installing windows I have to hit the F6 key and SCSI (or something similar) controller using a floppy. But now for some reason my floppy drive won’t recognize any floppies, I bought a new floppy drive of newegg and installed it thinking the old one might have gone bad, but even the new one won’t recognize any floppies.

any help to remedy the problem is welcome
thanx :p
 
What error does it give you? It might be reading the floppies but you don't have the right files where windows expects to find them. Also if this doesn't work out look into some faqs on slipstreaming drivers into a windows install disc.
 
Well, to list the obvious first:
-check the power connection
-check data cable plugged right way
-floppy drive turned on in bios
-light on floppy drive comes on when you boot, then it should go off. If it stays on that usually means the data cable is plugged wrong.
-try the floppies in another computer to verify they are working

After that... I don't know.
 
zutme said:
What error does it give you? It might be reading the floppies but you don't have the right files where windows expects to find them. Also if this doesn't work out look into some faqs on slipstreaming drivers into a windows install disc.
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no error message it simply say "insert disk into drive A". even thought the disk is in there.


Excavator said:
Well, to list the obvious first:
-check the power connection
-check data cable plugged right way
-floppy drive turned on in bios
-light on floppy drive comes on when you boot, then it should go off. If it stays on that usually means the data cable is plugged wrong.
-try the floppies in another computer to verify they are working

After that... I don't know.
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all that stuff seems to work right. power, conector , bios, litgt comes on at stratup and goes off.


The floopy works on my external USB floopy drive, just not on the internal one and i dont think i can use the USB floopy drive while installing windows.
 
Hmm, not sure what's left. Try making another floppy I guess.

You could try the usb one, enable legacy usb support in bios and it may recognize it.

Let us know...
 
zutme said:
look into some faqs on slipstreaming drivers into a windows install disc.
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the answer to my problems is slipstream............


thank you so very much.
:D :D :D :D
 
Excavator said:
Hmm, not sure what's left. Try making another floppy I guess.

You could try the usb one, enable legacy usb support in bios and it may recognize it.

Let us know...
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i am gonna give this slipstream thing a shot seems promising.

thanx for the help.
 
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