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If anybody has the time and the patience, would they mind flipping some
advice my way? I completed (I thought) my build and was gearing up to
deal with the XP/SATA driver issue when I began to hit problems -
initially limited to my floppy not recognizing disks and now escalated
to the point that when I turn my computer on, the green light on the
motherboard is the only sign of life.
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
My system is:
Asus A8V Deluxe (refurb but looks brand new)
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
2X Mushkin PC3200 512 MB
2X SATA Seagate Barracuda 160GB, hooked up in Raid0 through the
on-board VIA SATA controller
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
Rosewill 52X etc. CD-RW
NEC DL DVD/CD-RW
Sony 1.44MB Floppy
Enlight case (don't have model number at the moment) w/ 360W PSU
OK - so despite my lack of knowledge, the system seemed to go together
OK. Sure, I couldn't seem to get the front power switch to work
(despite trying it in every possible configuration on the designated
pins), but the system POSTed just fine, I was able to set up the HD
array in the VIA utility, BIOS recognized the RAM and the optical
drives, floppy drive, etc. just peachy.
Perfect, right? So I started to install Win XP Pro w/ SP2 and hit F6 at
the appropriate time to load the floppy with the SATA RAID VIA drivers
- created by the makedisk utility on the ASUS cd. Unfortunately, the XP
Install program didn't recognize the disk - it kept asking me to put
the right disk in no matter how many times I hit enter.
That's when I started to get the idea that something was up with my
floppy drive - it didn't even let me navigate, it kept turning down
each disk. So I created a book disk from another machine (Win98),
restarted it, and tried to boot from it - no go. It just kept asking
for a path to a boot disk. The floppy light came on at the appropriate
time, I could hear it trying to read the disk, but there was nobody
home.
Everything pointed to a floppy problem, so since I always have trouble
with floppy cables, I tried flipping it upside down and all that. No
help there - I just got the "light permanently on or no light at all"
scenarios. So restored the cable orientation and returned to the point
where the drive appeared to work great, it just didn't read disks.
Then I went online and tried to find others who suffered from this
problem - one person had, and had cleared CMOS by changing the CLRTC
jumper to 2&3 instead of 1&2 and removing the battery. That had solved
their problem, strangely enough. So I tried that - I figured at worst,
I'd just have to redo the one or two changes I had made in the BIOS
settings (boot order and that sort of thing).
The only problem, is that after I did that and set the jumper back to
the default 1&2, when I tried to power back on, absolutely nothing
happened. The green light on the motherboard came on, but no fans, no
lights, no activity, no nothing. I'm completely lost on what problem
this could be or what I could do to solve it. I'm just hoping I didn't
somehow fry everything - though I'm not sure how that could be.
I've now Googled for a solution to *this* problem, but without any
luck. I figure I'm better off throwing myself on the mercy of Usenet
with a specific issue and hope for the best.
If anybody has any suggestions, I'd *love* to hear them - both on
getting my system to POST or even show any kind of activity again, and
on what my floppy problem might be. If the CLRTC hadn't worked, I was
going to swap my floppy out of my other machine (major pain), but now
that there's no activity at all, there doesn't seem to be any point!
Cheers,
Chris Hafner
If anybody has the time and the patience, would they mind flipping some
advice my way? I completed (I thought) my build and was gearing up to
deal with the XP/SATA driver issue when I began to hit problems -
initially limited to my floppy not recognizing disks and now escalated
to the point that when I turn my computer on, the green light on the
motherboard is the only sign of life.
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
My system is:
Asus A8V Deluxe (refurb but looks brand new)
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
2X Mushkin PC3200 512 MB
2X SATA Seagate Barracuda 160GB, hooked up in Raid0 through the
on-board VIA SATA controller
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
Rosewill 52X etc. CD-RW
NEC DL DVD/CD-RW
Sony 1.44MB Floppy
Enlight case (don't have model number at the moment) w/ 360W PSU
OK - so despite my lack of knowledge, the system seemed to go together
OK. Sure, I couldn't seem to get the front power switch to work
(despite trying it in every possible configuration on the designated
pins), but the system POSTed just fine, I was able to set up the HD
array in the VIA utility, BIOS recognized the RAM and the optical
drives, floppy drive, etc. just peachy.
Perfect, right? So I started to install Win XP Pro w/ SP2 and hit F6 at
the appropriate time to load the floppy with the SATA RAID VIA drivers
- created by the makedisk utility on the ASUS cd. Unfortunately, the XP
Install program didn't recognize the disk - it kept asking me to put
the right disk in no matter how many times I hit enter.
That's when I started to get the idea that something was up with my
floppy drive - it didn't even let me navigate, it kept turning down
each disk. So I created a book disk from another machine (Win98),
restarted it, and tried to boot from it - no go. It just kept asking
for a path to a boot disk. The floppy light came on at the appropriate
time, I could hear it trying to read the disk, but there was nobody
home.
Everything pointed to a floppy problem, so since I always have trouble
with floppy cables, I tried flipping it upside down and all that. No
help there - I just got the "light permanently on or no light at all"
scenarios. So restored the cable orientation and returned to the point
where the drive appeared to work great, it just didn't read disks.
Then I went online and tried to find others who suffered from this
problem - one person had, and had cleared CMOS by changing the CLRTC
jumper to 2&3 instead of 1&2 and removing the battery. That had solved
their problem, strangely enough. So I tried that - I figured at worst,
I'd just have to redo the one or two changes I had made in the BIOS
settings (boot order and that sort of thing).
The only problem, is that after I did that and set the jumper back to
the default 1&2, when I tried to power back on, absolutely nothing
happened. The green light on the motherboard came on, but no fans, no
lights, no activity, no nothing. I'm completely lost on what problem
this could be or what I could do to solve it. I'm just hoping I didn't
somehow fry everything - though I'm not sure how that could be.
I've now Googled for a solution to *this* problem, but without any
luck. I figure I'm better off throwing myself on the mercy of Usenet
with a specific issue and hope for the best.
If anybody has any suggestions, I'd *love* to hear them - both on
getting my system to POST or even show any kind of activity again, and
on what my floppy problem might be. If the CLRTC hadn't worked, I was
going to swap my floppy out of my other machine (major pain), but now
that there's no activity at all, there doesn't seem to be any point!
Cheers,
Chris Hafner