I just built my first PC and am getting problems with the mobo recognizing the floppy, CD-RW, and HDs. Everything else is good so far, boots up fine, and can go into BIOS.
Regarding the floppy/IDE ribbon cables, it seems that they are correctly attached. On the mobo, there is only one way to attach the cables, because of the raised bump in the middle of one side of the ribbon cable must go into the corresponding grooved side of the floppy/IDE controller on the mobo... the connector is keyed. To put it another way, the red stripe of the ribbon for all three cables faces the back of the case.
As far as how the cables are connected to the drives, I originally connected them properly, (the red edges face the open side of the case).
This is according to the directions at pcmech.com, which state:
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Always check Pin 1 on the ribbon cable connector. The red edge of the cable is connected to Pin 1. If you accidentally reverse this, your drive won't be damaged, it just won't work, and the floppy drive light will stay on all the time until fixed.
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However, since the floppy drive light stayed on and it wouldn't boot from the floppy (boot failure), I reversed the ribbon cable to the floppy drive (forgetting that the connectors are keyed). After that, it booted fine, but then I tried to do that with the CD-RW ribbon cable, and upon inspecting the back of the CD-RW drive, I noticed that the cable should only be inserted one way (the way that I had originally done it).
So the floppy will only work if I attach the cable to the drive the wrong way, and I don't wan't to do that with the CD-RW and HD.
Can anyone help?
Regarding the floppy/IDE ribbon cables, it seems that they are correctly attached. On the mobo, there is only one way to attach the cables, because of the raised bump in the middle of one side of the ribbon cable must go into the corresponding grooved side of the floppy/IDE controller on the mobo... the connector is keyed. To put it another way, the red stripe of the ribbon for all three cables faces the back of the case.
As far as how the cables are connected to the drives, I originally connected them properly, (the red edges face the open side of the case).
This is according to the directions at pcmech.com, which state:
quote:
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Always check Pin 1 on the ribbon cable connector. The red edge of the cable is connected to Pin 1. If you accidentally reverse this, your drive won't be damaged, it just won't work, and the floppy drive light will stay on all the time until fixed.
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However, since the floppy drive light stayed on and it wouldn't boot from the floppy (boot failure), I reversed the ribbon cable to the floppy drive (forgetting that the connectors are keyed). After that, it booted fine, but then I tried to do that with the CD-RW ribbon cable, and upon inspecting the back of the CD-RW drive, I noticed that the cable should only be inserted one way (the way that I had originally done it).
So the floppy will only work if I attach the cable to the drive the wrong way, and I don't wan't to do that with the CD-RW and HD.
Can anyone help?
