K7T board won't read cd or floppy drives

I have a K7T Turbo2 board. It's been working fine for quite some time. Has 2 cd drives, and 1 hard drive. It reads the hard drive just fine and loads up ok. On boot I'm getting a "Floppy Disk(s) fail (40)" error message. It recognizes all of the drives but it won't access either cd or floppy drive. I've tried every conceivable cable option, changed cables, reseated all of the cables and also reset the bios options. I've also deleted and reinstalled all the ide devices and controllers. Any ideas??? Seems like something just went away on the motherboard.
Thanks for any suggestions.....

Wow! Changing PSU in four minutes! A local PC mag. has a competition for the quickest assembly of a computer system; any thoughts of entering? I find it a little odd that boot-up time is shortened by better Power Supply Unit.
I had one handy and the case was open! I was surprised on boot time but there was a definite difference.
In Device Manager check settings for the CD-drives. If they are set for DMA, disable. Reboot.
Currently set PIO---but had already tried this.
Next step would be to remove all not working units from Device Manager. Shut down. Unplug and clear CMOS. Wait 30 seconds or so, then restart.
Did this also. The system recognizes the devices and always has---they just can't be used to transfer any data. Drives open---they show up in device manager as ok---they show up in Windows----just can't read any data from them.
If you don't normally use floppys you could disable floppy control and floppy seek in BIOS I believe.
Floppy drive controller has been disabled and cables unplugged without success.
You have tried cable moving etc, haven't you.
Every possible combination and new cables---also tried combinations of master and slave for the cd drives--nothing worked.
Ntkernl OK?
Not sure--not getting any error messages--how can it be checked???

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