The floppy drive works, so does CDROM, but they don't with this motherboard in the sense that I can't boot from any removable media. But the strange thing is that they show up as what they are supposed to be and everything. I am going to RMA it probably. =(
Victor: FDD seek was enabled on startup, of course.
Hw45: I'm pretty sure I'm not using ntfs, but fat32 because I installed xp on top of 98.
Frank: I am not going to do that, because the bios is just fine, because the motherboard is brand new.
Rela: The boot order is fine, with the floppy...
If your motherboard has a feature that automatically shuts down your computer if your cpu gets too hot, (and I am betting it does based on your hardware, it must be a newer board) then that could be the problem. make sure you have good cooling and explore your bios or read your board's user...
I had a POS system that eventually quit on me because it was so old. I was running a 60GB hd with 50GB XP partition, and a 10GB Linux partition. I bought all new hardware besides CDROM, hdd and floppy. I can't boot, which I expected with xp, but I can't even get into my Linux partition (Red Hat...
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