I agree with wolluf about POST.....who knows the settings
may have been there from old drives....however
***The set up knows the hard drives are both there, and which is Primary and which is slave, but the post screen only detects the CD Rom and CDRW drive.***
are these both on the Secondary Channel?
***Also it will not boot from the floppy drive, just ignores it......
It was only when I went back in and put the operating system drive back and replaced the 80gb, that it decided not to recognise the floppy drive.
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Is it possible you blew out the floppy controller on the Mobo whilst making connections....maybe with PSU plugged in...or not discharging your electrostatic shock when fiddling....try a diff floppy drive......
Yet...you may just have to set floppy in BIOS as "First BOOT Device"..and also set "Boot up on Floppy Seek" or similar under floppy settings
***I replaced the second hard drive in my old computer***
Cause it's old and you had such large drives, is it possible there's Drive Overlay involved.....
Are you using "AutoConfig" in BIOS for IDE Config(let the BIOS talk to the controller on HDD)..
Also, check in BIOS under IDE config..."Dual IDE Channels" Enable Both Channels
Definitely doing One at a time will help.....
Peace
TT4U
Notification:
These are just "my" thoughts....and should be carefully measured against other opinions....I try very hard to impart correct info at all times.