K6-2 400 mhz and floppy drive

[Dave12t]

Just put together a PC with a K6-20 400 CPU on a Diamond C200 motherboard. When I try to boot up using my floppy drive (A:\) it by passes it and goes to my C:\ drive where there is nothing but the Command.sys file. When I try to access the A:\ drive from the C:\ I get the ABORT, RETRY, FAIL message all the time. I have tried using another floppy drive and floppy ribbon cable to no avail. BIOS settings are setup accordingly (A: then C: drive to read first). My friend says that i must type A:\ $&*#@! to make it work since the motherboard is a 100 mhz channel bus. Any truth to this? Thanks for any input.

[magk9]

No, you don't have to type that! Your floppy is not hooked up correctly, or is bad. Make sure the ribbon cable is not backwards....red tracer goes to pin #1 on the board and floppy....and also check that the onboard floppy controller is enabled and that there IS power at the power connector.If you can't go from C: to A:, recheck everything...if the light stays on for the floppy, the ribbon is definitely backwards. goodluck!

[holze41]

well check everything magk9 told you and
if that didn´t work,maybe your onboard
floppy controller is trashed,i had the same
problem with a gigabyte 6bxe and 300a set
to 450,now on my new abit bh6 everything
works perfect