Floppy drive not working on Neo2-FIS2R

This is a bizarre one. When we first set the system up, the a: wouldn't work. So we tried 2 different floppy drives and 3 different cables. Eventually the floppy drive just started to spontaneously worked - this allowed us to set up the Intel RAID array (since windows XP needs the F6 + disk in A: to install the drivers).
Then, after having XP installed, the a: wouldn't work from windows. This was rather bizarre.
Then later on it just spontaneously started working again, so I took the opportunity to flash to bios 1.3. Now it has stopped working, and that didn't trouble me so much as I don't have much need for an A: generally.
However I was overclocking the system, and evidently had too low a voltage on the memory, did a memory benchmark in SiSoft Sadra and it hung in the middle, so I reset the computer. Ever since that, booting into Windows had some strange problems, CoreCenter, among other programs, would not start correctly - it would show up in the processes, but the window wouldn't show. Likewise running Sandra or 3dMark, they'd show up as active processes but would not actually be usable. Until I played a music file in winamp - then suddenly all the programs would open up.
So I figured, right, time to reinstall windows. And it has since turned out that my hard drives were buggered somehow (or at least, they are now) and so I have to format them and start from scratch. Thus leading to the problem.
How are you supposed to install the drivers for RAID from an A: if your A: does not work? The drive light goes on as if it's trying to read, and it makes noises with the head moving around or something, but it just will not recognize any disk in the drive. Including putting a valid windows 98 boot disk and restarting - it says it is searching for a boot record, but cannot find one on the disk.
We have tried 3 different cables and 2 different floppy drives, various settings for turning the FDC on the system on and off to no avail. The curious thing is that it's randomly started working by itself in the past.
Anyone have any ideas what's up? We're trying to find a PCI floppy controller right now to see if we can just avoid the problem completely.
Is the board buggered or what?

I found the problem, it was rather stupid, and probably pretty system-specific, but just incase anyone else has the same problem and it drives them insane...
The problem was a mechanical one - the case I have has a panel that it puts on over top of the floppy drive. There is a button that connects with the eject button on the drive. The problem was the drive was seated about 2 mm too far forwards, so when you put a disk in the drive, it was pushed too far back and not properly seated, making it unreadable.
Fixed it now though.

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