Hi, I have a GA-8IG1000MK (Rev 1.x) motherboard and floppy that does not work.

The board supports qflash and one should be able to write the .bin or whatever kind of file to a floppy and then use qflash to read the file and install it.

Anyway so I do it and it says read error from disk, so naturally use another non-colored disk. Same thing so I use a dos based update program on floppy will not boot from floppy.

So then I check all cords and try again, and yes my first boot device is floppy. Still nothing so I try just a win98 boot disk...
nothing. So then I try a win98 boot disk on yet another floppy (non-color different brand too!) Nothing.

So then I take the floppy drive out and put in another, nothing, so I try a different ribbon too! Nothing.

Ribbon 1 has only other end aside from one that plugs in floppy slot on mobo. The ribbon has a twist in it that I put closer to the floppy. Nothing. And vice versa. I rememeber from older computers that if you put it backwards, post would freak and the drive would spin crazy.

So I tried a different ribbon with two floppy drive connections possible. Nothing.

So then I made a win98 cd and booted the box from that and then switched out the disc and out in a disc with bin and flasher and autoexec.bat and from there updated my bios.

What is wrong with the floppy?

I'm not sure that I completely followed your post, but if between two sets of drives and cables nothing ever worked, my guess would be that the floppy connector on the board may be dead.

Since you've tried everything else it means that the connector on the motherboard is the only thing you've not been able to swap out - try the drives, cables, etc in another box. If they don't work there, the drives are bad. If they do, your motherboard's connector is dead.

Can it be dead and still try to access the drive, green light goes on.

Also, what is the way to connect the drive, twist closer to drive or board (single floppy cable). Red stripe should always go towards power cable, right?

Conventional wisdom says Red stripe closer to the power connector, and the side withthe twist closer to the drive. The red stripe thing is only a suggestion, though - manufactureres aren't under any obligation to follow it, and I've had some that don't.

I don't see why it couldn't be dead and still have the access light go on - all it has to be is unusable, not necessary disconnected altogether (i.e. it could be reading something, just not able to understand what it's reading). The best way still is to swap out the drive(s) into another system and see what you get there.