I need help from the experts out there please.
I recently bought the Epox ep-8k7a Motherboard and got everything installed successfully. The board goes through it's system checks and recognizes everything ok like it should and finishes showing a status of FF on the board passing control over the floppy drive to install Win 98 SE via the bootable disk however every time it comes back saying System Disk Error or Non bootable disk. Sometime the floppy light will come on and turn off and nothing will happen. Sometimes the floppy drive will come on and stay on constantly. Sometimes the floppy drive will come on and then a couple of weird characters will come up on the screen. Basically I can not get the OS installed. I have tried 3 different bootable disks, 3 different floppy drives and tried to install from a bootable disk in the CD rom drive with the same results. I have quadruple checked all the connections, switched out the IDE cables to be safe and still no luck. Any suggestions as to what I can try next? Any other information you need from me before you can answer my questions? I am far from computer literate some please give me your answer on a kindergarden level. Thank You.
I recently bought the Epox ep-8k7a Motherboard and got everything installed successfully. The board goes through it's system checks and recognizes everything ok like it should and finishes showing a status of FF on the board passing control over the floppy drive to install Win 98 SE via the bootable disk however every time it comes back saying System Disk Error or Non bootable disk. Sometime the floppy light will come on and turn off and nothing will happen. Sometimes the floppy drive will come on and stay on constantly. Sometimes the floppy drive will come on and then a couple of weird characters will come up on the screen. Basically I can not get the OS installed. I have tried 3 different bootable disks, 3 different floppy drives and tried to install from a bootable disk in the CD rom drive with the same results. I have quadruple checked all the connections, switched out the IDE cables to be safe and still no luck. Any suggestions as to what I can try next? Any other information you need from me before you can answer my questions? I am far from computer literate some please give me your answer on a kindergarden level. Thank You.