Glen M
Experienced Member
I managed to get this old board powered up but for the life of me I cannot get it to boot a floppy.
This board was given to me in unknown condition. After hacking up an ATX power supply I got the board to post but when I connect a floppy drive it won't read anything. The drive is detected and you get the normal seek. After the bios checks the drive lights up, tries to read, but then fails with "non-system disk or disk error replace disk and strike and key". The drive and disk are both fine, both verified working on other systems. I have also tried other drives, disks and cables all with the same result.
Someone suggest to me that you need the riser card fitted to the board or it will not work. I don't have the riser but I didn't think this would matter as its just an extension of the ISA bus, surely leaving it off is no different than having empty ISA slots and shouldn't effect the operation of the machine.
There are 2nr 34pin headers on the board. The drive is only detected when connected to the top header and only when using a straight through cable. Using a twisted cable I still get the seek but the drive isn't detected in the bios.
Any idea whats going on here, why this board won't boot from floppy?
Also what is the second 34 pin header for?
Picture of the board for reference, note the battery has since been replaced.
https://i.imgur.com/ljTLxPi.jpg
This board was given to me in unknown condition. After hacking up an ATX power supply I got the board to post but when I connect a floppy drive it won't read anything. The drive is detected and you get the normal seek. After the bios checks the drive lights up, tries to read, but then fails with "non-system disk or disk error replace disk and strike and key". The drive and disk are both fine, both verified working on other systems. I have also tried other drives, disks and cables all with the same result.
Someone suggest to me that you need the riser card fitted to the board or it will not work. I don't have the riser but I didn't think this would matter as its just an extension of the ISA bus, surely leaving it off is no different than having empty ISA slots and shouldn't effect the operation of the machine.
There are 2nr 34pin headers on the board. The drive is only detected when connected to the top header and only when using a straight through cable. Using a twisted cable I still get the seek but the drive isn't detected in the bios.
Any idea whats going on here, why this board won't boot from floppy?
Also what is the second 34 pin header for?
Picture of the board for reference, note the battery has since been replaced.
https://i.imgur.com/ljTLxPi.jpg