New Build: Asus X48 Rampage Formula - Page 4

Sir Skully · 08-07-2008, 10:42 AM

Ususually when I've had that problem its not a bad mobo. But rather hardware, bios setting, or how ya hooked it up.

traveler · 08-07-2008, 10:44 AM

Thanks ctal and Skully.

It's a round floppy cable labled on each side. Plus I traced the red cable from pin 1 on the MB to pin 1 on the drive.

The PnP is No by default in the BIOS and has always been No. That setting shouldn't make any difference though.

The floppy drive itself was tested on another computer both before and after being in the Rampage Formula and it booted that test rig computer with the Memtest86+ disk in it with no problem.

The round floppy cable is brand new. I have not yet swapped it with the Asus supplied cable that came with the MB.

But what about the problem with the optical drive? It wants a driver per the error message. What driver? This is a first boot. No drivers yet installed.

__________________
Asus X48 Rampage Formula / Intel Q9450 / 2 x 2GB OCZ Reaper HPC PC2 8500 / VisionTek Radeon HD3870X2 OverClocked Edition /
Western Digital Raptor X Hard Drive / Two Western Digital Caviar RE2 WD5001ABYS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drives /
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Elite Pro 7.1 / Creative Gigaworks S750 7.1 Speaker System /
Lian Li 343B cube case / PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Crossfire Edition

Sir Skully · 08-07-2008, 11:27 AM

What about the region setting, mine is region 1 on my ide cable dvd.

**Sandog** · 08-07-2008, 11:33 AM

Hey Guys,

Awesome sig Sir Skully

Sir Skully · 08-07-2008, 11:42 AM

I've even done an OS reinstall when all else fails. And had my drives work right the second time around. This doesn't always work. Just something to think about.

Sir Skully · 08-07-2008, 11:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sandog

Hey Guys,

Awesome sig Sir Skully

Thanks bud, and Choo-Choo says, thanks***

***

traveler · 08-07-2008, 02:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sir Skully

I've even done an OS reinstall when all else fails. And had my drives work right the second time around. This doesn't always work. Just something to think about.

There is no operating system.

There are no formated hard drives.

This is a first time POST.

What do I need to do to get the floppy or the DVD drive to read a disk in order to install an OS or run Memtest86?

traveler · 08-08-2008, 09:52 AM

Asus tech support says to try one stick of RAM and to use the cables that came with the Rampage Formula. That's all they can think of. OK. I'll try.

fvbounty · 08-08-2008, 10:05 AM

It sounds like your using a IDE DVD burner, to you have a sata burner to try? I read somewhere people have problems now with these new chip sets with compatibility with sata and ide devices?

traveler · 08-08-2008, 01:26 PM

No SATA burner here.

I called Asus tech support.

Since the floppy drive and the Memtest86 floppy disk would boot and work fine everytime in another computer, Asus tech support said to try the cables included with the Rampage extreme.

So I opened the package with the floppy ribbon cable and connected it and put the included Asus Rampage Formula CD into the optical drive. After POSTing, the CD menu asked if I wanted to make a driver disk and to put a blank formatted disk into drive A; I put the requested disk in and pressed the key. Then the message appeared on the moniter: "cannot read from drive A"

So there it goes.

Floppy A is listed in the boot sequence devices list in the BIOS.

**Sandog** · 08-08-2008, 02:58 PM

Make sure you have a good floppy disk. They seem to degrade after time if it is an old disk. I found several new disk that I had never used to be bad a while back.

traveler · 08-08-2008, 10:11 PM

Thanks Sandog.

As I said in the post just above, I moved the "floppy drive and the bootable floppy disk in the drive" back and forth four or five times between the Rampage Formula and another computer. Each transfer would result in a perfectly normal boot into Memtest86 on the other computer and each transfer back to the Rampage Formula would result in a non active floppy.

So, ... after trying with a good floppy drive, a good floppy disk, and two brand new floppy cables, what do you think could be wrong here?

__________________
Asus X48 Rampage Formula / Intel Q9450 / 2 x 2GB OCZ Reaper HPC PC2 8500 / VisionTek Radeon HD3870X2 OverClocked Edition /
Western Digital Raptor X Hard Drive / Two Western Digital Caviar RE2 WD5001ABYS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drives /
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Elite Pro 7.1 / Creative Gigaworks S750 7.1 Speaker System /
Lian Li 343B cube case / PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Crossfire Edition

Wingit · 08-08-2008, 11:01 PM

Just curious Trav, have you enabled AHCI in bios?...there are sometimes issues with drives not being recognized...

Advanced Host Controller Interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just trying to figure this out...I used a USB Flash Drive for my floppy needs and will never go back, btw

GL Bud!

ATINUT · 08-09-2008, 12:15 AM

If you enabled AHCI mode, you are stuck using an IDE DVD Burner. Most Intel chipsets are such, where if you enable AHCI mode, you are stuck using an IDE DVD Burner.

I personally quit using a floppy drive, under XP, as there was no need for me to have a floppy drive anymore in my computer.

With Vista there really isn't a need for a floppy drive in the computer. One of the other things you could try is a USB floppy drive.

Good luck on your system.

traveler · 08-09-2008, 12:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wingit

Just curious Trav, have you enabled AHCI in bios?...there are sometimes issues with drives not being recognized...

Advanced Host Controller Interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just trying to figure this out...I used a USB Flash Drive for my floppy needs and will never go back, btw

GL Bud!

Thanks Wingit.

I pretty much kept the BIOS stock. So there was no AHCI. Even so, in order to install the drivers, all instruction say to use a floppy. So the floppy drive should work with nothing more than pressing the power on button.

__________________
Asus X48 Rampage Formula / Intel Q9450 / 2 x 2GB OCZ Reaper HPC PC2 8500 / VisionTek Radeon HD3870X2 OverClocked Edition /
Western Digital Raptor X Hard Drive / Two Western Digital Caviar RE2 WD5001ABYS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drives /
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Elite Pro 7.1 / Creative Gigaworks S750 7.1 Speaker System /
Lian Li 343B cube case / PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Crossfire Edition

08-07-2008, 10:42 AM	#46
Sir Skully ABX KNIGHT EXEMPLAR Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: USA-GA Posts: 25,969	Re: New Build: Asus X48 Rampage Formula Ususually when I've had that problem its not a bad mobo. But rather hardware, bios setting, or how ya hooked it up. __________________ .....................................................................................................................
(Offline)

08-07-2008, 10:44 AM	#47
traveler Where to next? Join Date: May 2001 Location: South Florida Posts: 18,177	Thanks ctal and Skully. It's a round floppy cable labled on each side. Plus I traced the red cable from pin 1 on the MB to pin 1 on the drive. The PnP is No by default in the BIOS and has always been No. That setting shouldn't make any difference though. The floppy drive itself was tested on another computer both before and after being in the Rampage Formula and it booted that test rig computer with the Memtest86+ disk in it with no problem. The round floppy cable is brand new. I have not yet swapped it with the Asus supplied cable that came with the MB. But what about the problem with the optical drive? It wants a driver per the error message. What driver? This is a first boot. No drivers yet installed. __________________ Asus X48 Rampage Formula / Intel Q9450 / 2 x 2GB OCZ Reaper HPC PC2 8500 / VisionTek Radeon HD3870X2 OverClocked Edition / Western Digital Raptor X Hard Drive / Two Western Digital Caviar RE2 WD5001ABYS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drives / Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Elite Pro 7.1 / Creative Gigaworks S750 7.1 Speaker System / Lian Li 343B cube case / PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Crossfire Edition
(Offline)

08-07-2008, 11:27 AM	#48
Sir Skully ABX KNIGHT EXEMPLAR Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: USA-GA Posts: 25,969	Re: New Build: Asus X48 Rampage Formula What about the region setting, mine is region 1 on my ide cable dvd. __________________ .....................................................................................................................
(Offline)

08-07-2008, 11:33 AM	#49
Sandog DP45SG/Q9650 Join Date: May 2003 Location: Alabama Posts: 6,199	Re: New Build: Asus X48 Rampage Formula Hey Guys, Awesome sig Sir Skully __________________
(Offline)

08-07-2008, 11:42 AM	#50
Sir Skully ABX KNIGHT EXEMPLAR Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: USA-GA Posts: 25,969	Re: New Build: Asus X48 Rampage Formula I've even done an OS reinstall when all else fails. And had my drives work right the second time around. This doesn't always work. Just something to think about. __________________ .....................................................................................................................
(Offline)

08-08-2008, 09:52 AM	#53
traveler Where to next? Join Date: May 2001 Location: South Florida Posts: 18,177	Asus tech support says to try one stick of RAM and to use the cables that came with the Rampage Formula. That's all they can think of. OK. I'll try.
(Offline)

08-08-2008, 10:05 AM	#54
fvbounty Eat Wild Pacific Salmon Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Alameda Ca Posts: 5,179	Re: New Build: Asus X48 Rampage Formula It sounds like your using a IDE DVD burner, to you have a sata burner to try? I read somewhere people have problems now with these new chip sets with compatibility with sata and ide devices? __________________ New Gaming rig - Asus P5E3 Deluxe Wi-Fi - Intel QX9650 - CORSAIR TWIN3X2048-1600C7DHXIN 2GB PC3-12800 - 150 gig Raptor - 320 gig WD 3200YS - Corsair HX 620 watt PS - EVGA 512-P3-N841-A3 GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB - AMD FX 55 - XP-90C & SilentCat 9 - Asus A8N-SLI with Swiftech MCX159 - 2X1024 Corsair 3500LLPro 2-3-2-6 1T - 2X BFG 6800GT OC Zalman VF700-CU - 1 WD 74 Gig Raptor boot - 1 Seagate 7200 sata data - Nec 3500A - Plextor 716AL Slot Loader - Enermax EG 701 AX 600 watt PS - Silverstone Temjin TJ03B case with side window - G7 lazer mouse - Cannon Pixma I8500 printer - Windows XP Pro SP2 Slipstreamed - Dell 2405FPW lcd * Please note: any advertising within this post has been placed there by the site owner and NOT by me! *
(Offline)

08-08-2008, 01:26 PM	#55
traveler Where to next? Join Date: May 2001 Location: South Florida Posts: 18,177	No SATA burner here. I called Asus tech support. Since the floppy drive and the Memtest86 floppy disk would boot and work fine everytime in another computer, Asus tech support said to try the cables included with the Rampage extreme. So I opened the package with the floppy ribbon cable and connected it and put the included Asus Rampage Formula CD into the optical drive. After POSTing, the CD menu asked if I wanted to make a driver disk and to put a blank formatted disk into drive A; I put the requested disk in and pressed the key. Then the message appeared on the moniter: "cannot read from drive A" So there it goes. Floppy A is listed in the boot sequence devices list in the BIOS.
(Offline)

08-08-2008, 02:58 PM	#56
Sandog DP45SG/Q9650 Join Date: May 2003 Location: Alabama Posts: 6,199	Re: New Build: Asus X48 Rampage Formula Make sure you have a good floppy disk. They seem to degrade after time if it is an old disk. I found several new disk that I had never used to be bad a while back. __________________
(Offline)

08-08-2008, 10:11 PM	#57
traveler Where to next? Join Date: May 2001 Location: South Florida Posts: 18,177	Thanks Sandog. As I said in the post just above, I moved the "floppy drive and the bootable floppy disk in the drive" back and forth four or five times between the Rampage Formula and another computer. Each transfer would result in a perfectly normal boot into Memtest86 on the other computer and each transfer back to the Rampage Formula would result in a non active floppy. So, ... after trying with a good floppy drive, a good floppy disk, and two brand new floppy cables, what do you think could be wrong here? __________________ Asus X48 Rampage Formula / Intel Q9450 / 2 x 2GB OCZ Reaper HPC PC2 8500 / VisionTek Radeon HD3870X2 OverClocked Edition / Western Digital Raptor X Hard Drive / Two Western Digital Caviar RE2 WD5001ABYS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drives / Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Elite Pro 7.1 / Creative Gigaworks S750 7.1 Speaker System / Lian Li 343B cube case / PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Crossfire Edition
(Offline)

08-08-2008, 11:01 PM	#58
Wingit Palm Rat Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Southwest Florida, USA Posts: 4,740	Re: New Build: Asus X48 Rampage Formula Just curious Trav, have you enabled AHCI in bios?...there are sometimes issues with drives not being recognized... Advanced Host Controller Interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Just trying to figure this out...I used a USB Flash Drive for my floppy needs and will never go back, btw GL Bud! __________________
(Offline)

08-09-2008, 12:15 AM	#59
ATINUT Just Plain Crazy! Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 3,278	Re: New Build: Asus X48 Rampage Formula If you enabled AHCI mode, you are stuck using an IDE DVD Burner. Most Intel chipsets are such, where if you enable AHCI mode, you are stuck using an IDE DVD Burner. I personally quit using a floppy drive, under XP, as there was no need for me to have a floppy drive anymore in my computer. With Vista there really isn't a need for a floppy drive in the computer. One of the other things you could try is a USB floppy drive. Good luck on your system. __________________ Intel D975XBX2 Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 8GB's of Mushkin HP2 6400 memory(DDR2 800) two Sapphire GDDR4 Radeon 3870 videocards HT Omega Claro(Cmedia 8788HD chip) 120GB&200GB&320GB Western Digital harddrives LG DVDROM & LG DVDBURNER HP Deskjet 920C Logitech X-540 speakers Viewsonic VG2030wm 20inch Widescreen LCD Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit with Service Pack 1 Who'se the fool that approved the design for this place. - The Dwarf, Sacred Underworld.
(Offline)

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode