Problem with floppy drive

[Rondog]

We had a power spike the other night, and incidently it was the same night I put cable sleeving on my PSU wires. So to eliminate the obvious. Holding the wires, with the plug pointing upwards/forwards. Should it be Yellow-Black-Black-Red or Red-Black-Black-Yellow?

BTW: Does it matter which way the two black wires are?

The light on the floppy drive is always on, but the light is dull. Thanks guys.

[Aedan]

You want something like this then! Picture of connector.

If you've got the +12V and +5V around the wrong way, you can do a lot of damage to the floppy and the motherboard.

[Rondog]

Well that explains alot.

#1: The "power spike" was the floppy drives death, causing the computer to shut down.
#2: Why the floppy drive doesnt work.
#3: That also proves its better to be born lucky than beautiful, my mo/bo still works

Thanks for you help Aedan. I dont use it. Ive never used it, i added it as an after thought while building, I just wanted to know why I didnt work, went I made sure all my compents still worked after adding cable sleeving. Which they did until I tried to use the floppy drive. The only thing I use my floppy for, is a shelf to sit cathrode power converters on.

[Aedan]

It's good that nothing else died. I still retain a floppy drive, simply because I've had to recover the BIOS that way more than once... I figure it's cheap insurance!

[Rondog]

Ive got spares. But my case is poorly designed. To remove the floppy drive, I have to remove both side panels to access the screws. BUT the motherboard is screwed to the side panel. My case doesnt have a motherboard bay. But its all good.

If I need a firmware update, i'll just make a bootable CD-ROM on another PC.

[Aedan]

I find the bootable CD-ROM doesn't work too well when you're stuck with only the BIOS boot block, as has happened to me on a few occasions (on a number of different systems, I hasten to add!)

[Rondog]

As a general rule. I dont use firmware updates. So its all good.

[noorman]

Originally Posted by Rondog

We had a power spike the other night, and incidently it was the same night I put cable sleeving on my PSU wires. So to eliminate the obvious. Holding the wires, with the plug pointing upwards/forwards. Should it be Yellow-Black-Black-Red or Red-Black-Black-Yellow?

BTW: Does it matter which way the two black wires are?

The light on the floppy drive is always on, but the light is dull. Thanks guys.

on a decent floppy drive you can't put it the wrong way; the plug is roughly in a U shape. The inside of that U should go over the body(plastic) of the socket on the floppy-drive ...
there 's also a little ridge/bump on the socket side and a corresponding pit in the plug that should click on the bump. That way they both hold together ...

[Rondog]

I had the wires the wrong way around. I had the red and yellow switched.

[noorman]

... has happened before ...

LOL

[Rondog]

And most likely. It will happen to someone else again.