Numerous connectors and pins live on your motherboard. ... Floppy disk connector: The venerable 3.5-inch floppy disk drive survived for nearly two decades–an eternity in the tech universe.

Look carefully at the floppy drive and see if there is anything on the PCB that says "1" by a pin or something. Some floppy drive have their pin 1 on the far side from the power connector.

Now, feel free to dredge this article back up in a year's time when motherboards with the connectors on the rear are nothing but a distant memory, but during my time seeing what's on offer at CES ...

QUESTION:I have an older motherboard running a Pentium 125 MHz chip, and Windows 95B. The modem failed (dialling the ISP caused the system to lock up). After that, the floppy is not accessible. I ...