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Ild like to go rounded cables but......
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:57 pm
by Nosferatu
....my motherboard has put its floppy connector in the most insane spot imaginable. Its on the complete oposite side of the furthest PCI slot. Even worse, in my full tower, the floppy bay is on the very tip top. Ive measured and I would need at the very least 29 inches of rounded floppy cable. The bigest I could find on froogle google, is 24 inches.
Anyone know where I could try to find a longer rounded floppy cable?
Ya ya I know. WTF am I keeping a floppy around for? Well I still might want to flash the BIOS from time to time.
I might have to consider replacing the case. But this one has been a tried and true one for a while and I had plans on doing some modding with a dremel tool and some internal lighting.
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 9:25 pm
by Iceman
Now that really sucks.
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 9:33 pm
by Mobius
What's wrong with keeping a floppy drive handy, and if you ever need to use it, plug the thing in, with the floppy lying on the desk next to the case???
This aint exactly rocket surgery now is it!
That'll be $5 please.
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 9:36 pm
by Nosferatu
Well the hole in the front of the case would also look ugly and I dont have a faceplate.
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:59 am
by suicide eddie
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 12:01 pm
by STRESSTEST
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:02 pm
by AceCombat
STRESS!! you finally appear once again!
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 6:05 pm
by Mr. Perfect
Skimmer though he be.
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 6:31 pm
by Grendel
Dump the FDD. I left them out of the last 5 machines I built and never needed one. If you have to boot DOS for BIOS updates (sucky MB in that case
), use a USB pen drive or CD to boot from.
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:14 pm
by AceCombat
i like the 7-in-1 drives myself. FDD + any and all card media types
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:20 pm
by MD-2389
I second the USB flashdrive. You have no idea how handy those little suckers are. Your motherboard will treat it as a USB hard drive, which any mobo made since the late 90's should be able to boot off of. 24 inches is as long as they come for floppies. The longest cable I've seen for regular IDE drives is 30".
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 9:38 pm
by Nosferatu
OK then how do I fill in the ugly floppy bay hole in the front of the case when I threw out the cases custom face plate ages ago? If I get a new case I might as well just get one with the floppy bay placed lower down.
Oh and Stress (nice to see you post occasionally BTW) I do need 29 inches and that is even stretching it very closely.
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 10:16 pm
by Vander
Leave the floppy drive installed, but disconnected.
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 6:19 am
by Nosferatu
Oh wait I have an idea.
Dammit this idea came from Mobius's suggestion.
I hate to say this but thanks.
Ive been wanting to have one of those universal memory card bays anyway and looky what I found SIIG makes from a little froogle googleing:
http://www.siig.com/product.asp?catid=18&pid=609
Internal USB so I connect it up to an internal Motherboard USB header. And it would fit my floppy bay just nicely.
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 6:31 am
by will_kill
Mobius wrote:This aint exactly rocket surgery now is it!
ummm...is that anything like brain science?
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 8:02 pm
by Mr. Perfect
Touche, Sir.
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 11:36 am
by ccb056
You will need a floppy if you have a raid card which you want to install windows on an array, you will have to load the drivers from a floppy if you want the windows install to work.