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Drive A: is usually attached to the end of the cable with the twist in it.
Drive B: is usually connected to the middle of the cable. Refer to your
installation instructions or call your dealer if you are unsure about
attaching floppy drives. Refer to Figure 5 on the previous page for a
detailed anatomy of the floppy cable. Remember, you can only have 2
floppy drives connected at any given time.
The color stripe on the cable should face toward the top of your
chassis, or toward the big white B printed on the motherboard. Please
refer to your documentation for proper installation, or see Figure 4 on
page 13.
Some symptoms of incorrectly installed floppies are:
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Floppy drives are not detected: usually caused by faulty cables,
backward cables, or a bad floppy or motherboard. Try another
single floppy drive to verify the problem or try another cable. Also,
check to see if the onboard floppy is enabled in the BIOS.
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Floppy Drive Fail message at bootup: the cable, floppy, or
motherboard may be faulty. Try another cable or floppy drive to
verify.
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Light on the floppy is on constantly: a dead give-away that the
cable is on backwards. Reverse the cable at the motherboard end
and try again.
Next are the Com and Printer ports.
Warning: When plugging in your keyboard and mouse, or when
plugging anything into a serial or Com port, make sure that the power is
important!
off. Connecting these devices and ports while the power is on is called
"hot plugging," and may damage your system.
Figure 6 at the top of the next page shows the ATX double row connec-
tors on this board. The Com and Printer ports, as well as the other
ports, are labeled.
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