- Joined
- Feb 15, 2002
- Location
- Cincinnati, Oh.
Ok, specs to start with. It's a Intel "Al440lx" mobo w/ a Celery500 running windoze 98se. Been running just fine for weeks since the cpu upgrade from a p//266. I've had it running F@H 24/7 and my sons have been gaming on it since the upgrade, so I really don't think thats the issue. About a week and half ago I noticed that it started showing an error on boot. "ERROR 02b2: Incorrect Drive A type - run setup". So I go into setup and floppy options are what they are supposed to be. Everything looks fine, so I reboot. Same thing again... So I skip it and the rig boots ok. Did notice though that it won't format a floppy disk, but did read another disk that had some small program on it. So I just blow that off for the time being. Well, this morning I woke up to a power outage for about 5 minutes. Go downstairs to my office, Main rig boots just fine, but the Celery500 rig won't boot to normal windoze, it will only boot in Safemode. So in safemode, I start checking Device Manager, No errors. So I go into system explorer and find it showing 2 floppy drives, 1 in drive "A" and 1 in drive "B" and not showing any cdrom drive (which was drive "G"). So I whip out the ole trusty bootdisk in floppy and precede to try and boot from that. Nothing happening... Won't recognize the floppy drive at all. So I open the case and remove the jumper from Normal (with no jumper, it's supposed to go to recovery). It gives me one long beep, the 3 short beeps. That's all it will do without the jumper, so I figure it has reset the cmos. I power it back down, replace the jumper, and boot. AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!! Same thing again! No matter what I try, It won't read the floppy and forgot it has a cdrom. Someone pleez help, the only other recourse I can think of at the moment involves a baseball bat, Broom and dustpan....I'd prefer to avoid that method as my F@H team needs all the processing power it can muster up right now.