rapty Posted May 10, 2006 Posted May 10, 2006 Booted off the DFI Venus for the first time and the bloody thing wants to boot off windows CD not the 74GB Raptor with windows on a Bios Flash usually sorts this out I am attempting to flash it with 329 Bios only problem is that it does not seem to detect my floppy the power cable is in and IDE looking cable to the motherboard it won't detect a disk is their something in the Venus Bios I have to change in order for it to do so? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyr0 Posted May 10, 2006 Posted May 10, 2006 are you using the floppy cable that came with the board? if so, try swapping the cable, a number of venus boards were sold with bad floppy cables Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdLSmith Posted May 10, 2006 Posted May 10, 2006 Does floppy lite stay on. Only problem I ever had was bad connector on m/b and once a reversed cable. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundx98 Posted May 10, 2006 Posted May 10, 2006 hehehe, I think all of them were bad Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyr0 Posted May 10, 2006 Posted May 10, 2006 nah, not all, but certainly a lot day187 has a working cable i haven't checked mine yet Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundx98 Posted May 10, 2006 Posted May 10, 2006 I stand corrected. 1st one I have heard of working. Check yours Paul Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyr0 Posted May 10, 2006 Posted May 10, 2006 just checked it, and mine works perfectly w00t! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamester5 Posted May 10, 2006 Posted May 10, 2006 Damn, at least a few people got working Floppy cables with theri Venus. I was not one of the lucky ones...:-) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burleyboy Posted May 10, 2006 Posted May 10, 2006 I got my replacement floppy cable yeaterday, and was a little surprised to see it was one of the matching Venus ones. Curiousity, to see if they actually sent me a working one, almost got the best of me. I opened my case and was gonna replace it, when I said to hell with it. I'd have to move too many things around to replace it, for something that isn't even visible, and I've learned my lesson about rooting around in this thing unnecessarily. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rapty Posted May 10, 2006 Posted May 10, 2006 I'll take my old DR one out and test it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rapty Posted May 11, 2006 Posted May 11, 2006 Yeah bad floppy lead need to RMA it Anyway got windows going and installed the new Forceware drivers for it to say that it has to decrease performance so my hardware is not damaged Overloaded PSU? I have a XFI Connexted,Two XFX 470M 7900 GTs, Four Sticks of Bh5, Amd Opteron 170, Pci network Card, One 120mm, One Vantec Tornado, Fan Controller,ASUS Dvd RW & Floppy Drive what do you guys think all the rails are reporting in the green at the back Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICON57 Posted May 11, 2006 Posted May 11, 2006 hey Rapty, glad you got that sorted out. i too was one of the many with a bad floppy cable. never heard/saw that type of error/warning....i would guess that the 520 you are running, might be a tad overloaded? i know the 520's are not sli certified, and even thought i dont have 2 vid cards (yet) i did upgrade to the sli 600 psu. those 2 xfx gtx...plus everything else might be putting a strain on your psu, not to mention your 4 sticks of geil... ...with such a kick a$$ rig that you have...a psu upgrade might just be the ticket.... and i know you are gonna wanna oc the bejesus outta that monster! congrats on joing the "venus club" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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