My friend has a new custom built system:

Thunderbird 1.13Ghz
Epox 8KTA3 Mobo
256MB PC 133 Ram

After installing Win98 SE, I discoverd that the computer cannot read any floppy disk! It will say that the disk is not formatted, but when I tried it on another computer, it works. When I boot up to pure dos mode, then the floppy disk can be read without error! What can be wrong?? Please help. Thanks!!!!!!

Check out this Microsoft KB article:
Q131690 (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q131/6/90.asp?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=Q131690&rnk=1&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=CHS)

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Are you overclocking?


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Thanks for the quick replies!
I have replaced the floppy disk cable and discovered that the fault lies there. Thanks.

Another question has popped up. Sometimes during boot up, the bios will report that CMOS checksum failure and that overclock has failed. Please re-enter BIOS settings.

THe CPU was assembled by a vendor and according to him the CPU was not overclocked and is the Thunderbird 266Mhz FSB version. Is there a way to find out without removing the HSF??

When I enter the BIOS, I found out that the FSB has been changed to 100MHz, I will then changed it back to 133MHz and save the settings and exit and everything will work again.

It couldn't be something wrong with the CMOS battery as the Mobo is quite new and that both the BIOS version and the chipset version has already been updated to the latest revision. Please help, thanks!

It should not be the battery but the symptoms do point to it.

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