Speaking of Gremlins ...
Bought this board ...
GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard
This floppy drive ...
SAMSUNG Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive Model SFD321B/LBL1
and a whole bunch of other stuff to replace a flaky Intel mobo 945GNT based machine. Among other things, I couldn't get the floppy drive (and I tried 2 mobo's, 3 cables, and 2 drives) to work.
All in a Lian Li V1100B case.
Anyhow, I put the Gigabyte system into the Lian Li case (NEW parts: mobo, cpu, memory, DVD-ROM, power supply, video card), powered it up, and it wouldn't post. Took out everything except the CPU, cleared / shorted out the CMOS, got 'no memory' beeps. Put the memory back in different slots (I'm worried about that) got 'no video card beeps. Put the video card back, got to BIOS setup. Yeah baby ...
Put the BIOS flash floppy in the floppy drive - can't access it. Put my backup floppy (I made 2) in - can't access it.
Ok, well, I'll flash BIOS later ...
Setup the BIOS to RAID the 2 SATA drives. No issues.
Boot from the WinMediaCenter CD1 installer, press F6 to have it load the SATA RAID drivers ... can't access the A: drive.
It's 1am, and I went to bed.
Floppy drive light goes on, there's a bit of a sound (unless that was my blood pressure mixed with whiskey), and it doesn't work.
Same case, 2 separate sets of guts, multiple floppy drives and cables ... I'm kind of looking for floppy drive troubleshooting clues.
Got any?
Thanks,
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