floppy drive trouble

[sillyfresh]

I had posted earlier about my floppy drive not working. they said to switch my cables around because that might be the problem but it didn't work. My floppy drive still won't read any disks that i stick in and the light just stays on. all the cables are in their correct positions. please help.

 

[olds]

I didn't see the post but you may have misunderstood.
Take the cable off the back of the floppy. Leave the other end in the mobo connector. Turn the connector at the floppy over 180 degrees and plug it back in. Of course, do this with the computer turned off.

 

[sillyfresh]

i would try that but the cable wont go in that way. the connector has a little notch on one side preventing me from connecting it that way. it will hit the bottom of the hard dive and wont go in further.

 

[pcdeatherage]

and the cable is connected to the floppy using the end connector and not the middle one?

 

[jbritt1234]

Can you turn around the end that plugs into the Mobo?

 

[Xyrate]

is it a ECS K7S5A PRO? and did u get it from Newegg recently? if so i had the same problem and just sent it back to them friday i got so frusterated with it i just gave up i think it was the I/O port but i had the exact same problem everything else ran flawlesly but the flopppy i changed floppys and cables, it was a no go.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

the notch is for the key'd connectors, many of the older floppy cables aren't keyed, and relied on your knowledge of pin one being on the same side of the power connector. many of the floppy drives have a little tab that can be "busted off" to enable you to use the newer(late 80's) floppy cables, if it doesn't have one, either get a different floppy drive, get a different cable that isn't tabbed(good luck finding one), or very very carefully force the cable you have onto the floppy drive(sometimes you can take a hobby knive to the cables end and wittle the key'd tab off to make it fit without having to force it the correct way.) also make sure the twist in the cable is closest to the floppy drive and not closest to the mobo, this too will cause problems as the pin out isn't strait through and will reverse the wrong id pins of the cable.