Is This Possible ? No Floppy Boot Option

[jmotley7414]

Just bought a new in the the box Intel SE440BX-2 MB for a PIII 600 I had laying around. I install it in the new case hooked up the power, HDrives, etc and booted.

When I went into the BIOS under boot options they only had CD Rom, Hard Drive, Removable Drive, and Network.

I have tried pressing +/- with no luck. Finally, I put a floppy in on a fluke and it boot to it. I then FDisked the Hard drive and reboot. Now, the BIOS bypasses the floppy completely and I get a "No OS installed"

Any thoughts / Suggestions --

Am I crazy about the no Floppy option, is it thier and I am just missing it ??

Thanks --

 

[ejsmith2]

Boy.

I dunno.

I don't use a floppy anymore.

"I personally think filesystems should be rewritten from scratch every 5 years..." --- Hans Reiser

 

[misterg1]

I assume you have tried "removeable drive" which sometime refers to removeable media drive. If not; do so. It would be a real surprize if an old chipset like 440BX didn't have floppy disk support in bios. Great chipset by the way.

Mr "G"

 

[Unolocogringo]

I believe on that motherboard you need to use PageUp or PageDown to change values. Although it will not say floppy it will say A:.

I aint signing nothing!!!

 

[dhlucke]

If worst comes to worst, don't worry about it. I haven't used a floppy in a little over a year and a half.

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