Help me identify these parts on a motherboard...

[Elliot B.]

http://www.3dnews.ru/documents/2813/motherboard.jpg

Where is the socket where a floppy drive is plugged and where is the socket where a hard disk is plugged in?

[RadishTM Veteran]

Looks like 2 of the IDE connectors are at the bottom, blue and black.

The floppy disk connector is inline with where the white PCI slots are.

Radish?

[2s2k]

the blue and the black one under are the IDEs

and the black one right under the 4th pci slot is the FDD i guess, bad image quality

[samriley]

the floppy drive connector connector is near the cmos battery, below the word asus, the long retanglar casing of pins. ide1 (hard drive) connector looks similar to that of the floppy but is blue, next to the motherboard power connector, ide2 is next to it.

guess im a slower typer than radish and 2s2k

[Inhumane]

The blue one is for optical drives (CD-ROM, DVD-RW, etc.) and the black one below the blue one is the Hard drive connector.

The Floppy drive is the one right next to the PCI slots.

[Elliot B.]

the floppy drive connector connector is near the cmos battery, below the word asus, the long retanglar casing of pins. ide1 (hard drive) connector looks similar to that of the floppy but is blue, next to the motherboard power connector, ide2 is next to it.

guess im a slower typer than radish and 2s2k

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The Floppy Drive connector is near the CMOS battery? Erm but the guys above said it's at the bottom (if by IDE they meant floppy).

[samriley]

nah the ide connectors are the harddrive/optical-drive etc connectors, the floppy drive connector they said is inline with the 4th pci slot, which is next to the cmos battery

[Inhumane]

There yah go

[Elliot B.]

Cheers guys (Y)

[Lexcyn]

There yah go

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Isn't the blue IDE connection for the Primary drive...?

[samriley]

doesnt actually matter which of the ide connectors you attach harddrives/optical drives to, the blue one usually is ide 1, which is where most people would connect a hard drive so thats its primary

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

it only fits into one slot... so you cant mix them up11111

[Lexcyn]

doesnt actually matter which of the ide connectors you attach harddrives/optical drives to, the blue one usually is ide 1, which is where most people would connect a hard drive so thats its primary

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Ah, cool. :yes: I just figured since most EIDE cables now have the end of the cable marked blue. :p

[Inhumane]

Well on my motherboard the blue one is my optical drive IDE connector and the black one below it is hard drive.

[Shaman]

OMG u biggest cheater i ever seen. gettin other ppl do ur Work for ya. i think little birdy going tell barry about this :whistle:

[Elliot B.]

OMG u biggest cheater i ever seen. gettin other ppl do ur Work for ya.  i think little birdy going tell barry about this  :whistle:

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1) It's an Activity, not coursework

2) I am not tought by Barry Bird for this

3) Showing Rhiannon a link to my Blog to somehow belittle me hasn't worked, fool.

4) Don't get personal on a public forum again, no one knows what you're talking about.

[ahfunaki]

hahahaha...

busted!

[Shaman]

1) It's an Activity, not coursework

2) I am not tought by Barry Bird for this

3) Showing Rhiannon a link to my Blog to somehow belittle me hasn't worked, fool.

4) Don't get personal on a public forum again, no one knows what you're talking about.

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"Showing Rhiannon a link to my Blog to somehow belittle me hasn't worked, fool."

ok :huh:

"4) Don't get personal on a public forum again, no one knows what you're talking about."

y u going all personal then with rhiannon thing :wacko:

[psybapunk]

you were owned shaman, get over it, you're worthless

:)

[Comparisonman]

The blue connector is the Primary IDE interface, and the Black one is the Secondary IDE Interface. It really doesn't matter which IDE drives are plugged into which slot, but typically the primary hard drive is plugged into the blue slot as a master.