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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:

• 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.

• Floppy Drive Fail message at bootup: the cable, floppy, or

motherboard may be faulty. Try another cable or floppy drive to

verify.

• 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 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 connectors on

this board. The Com and Printer ports, as well as the other ports, are labeled.

INSTALL

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