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ndeller

ndeller

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enough apparently....

So I fitted a Sony Floppy disk drive into my new machine just now and when I switched my pc back on it loads the initial bios bootscreen and then displays "checking nvram" then goes to a black screen with a cusor line that just flashes and wont boot into XP.

When i fitted the new drive I added a new psu --> Molex power connector.
This molex split off into 2 smaller power connections. I then plugged one of these smaller connections into the back of the floppy. I then plugged the floppy drive controller from the drive to the motherboard.

I am certain I have installed correctly but it does not boot.
The only other thing I have done is moved a couple of SATA cables around for better fit, but this shouldnt effect the bootup should it??? I thought Sata allowed you to simply plug in and out without worry. Or once a hard drive/cdrom drive are plugged into a sata drive should you not move them?

any ideas as to why this is happening would be appreciated.

Thanks
Nick
 
ndeller said:
The only other thing I have done is moved a couple of SATA cables around for better fit, but this shouldnt effect the bootup should it??? Nick
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You mean you unplugged the satas from the mobo and put them in different sata sockets? try putting them back to how you had them...
 
yeah sorry originally I had the following plugged in:

Optical drive - Sata1
HDD1 - Sata3
HDD2 - Sata5

Now I have the following

Optical Drive - Sata3
HDD1 - Sata5
HDD2 - Sata 6

Would this have effected it then? I will swap them around tomorrow as now im not near the pc in question.

When connecting the floppy it is only the power (molex-->4pin) and the the data cable (floppy ide cable from drive-->floppy controller on mobo) that are required?
 
yeh, but I suspect your problem is do do with switching sata ports rather than the floppy, but its worth unplugging the floppy just to eliminate it for now, and see if putting the satas back fixes it.
 
if it is the sata ports, how can i go about setting them to the new port layout that i want?

If it does this when i want to change them, how will i ever be able to swap them around.
 
Dunno to be honest, its just I read somwhere about certain sata ports not liking to be used for certain things.....and from the alterations that you have made it seems to be the prime suspect, and an easy variable to eliminate by simply putting it back to how you had it.

Im just guessing if your mobo is expecting to find your os/primary HDD on sata 3,
and all of a sudden sata 3 is now an optical drive, its causing some kind of confusion.

someone here will know more than me about changing the sata ports, but first things first, get the pc working, then worry about cable routing.
 
I was messing around with my SATA ports yesterday and plugged my HDD into a different port... it wouldn't boot, kept telling me the bootloader was missing. So I plugged it back into the original port and still got the error! I had to clear my CMOS to get it to boot again. Strange.
 
Swapping the ports back seemed to work.
I think once an OS is on a drive it references that drive as the boot drive and then once swapped it cannot see that boot drive.

Strange.
 
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