Where do you connect floppy cable?

Connect the floppy drive ribbon between the drive and the the floppy drive connector on the motherboard – next to the pair of IDE controllers – making sure to similarly align the red line up with Pin 1 on the motherboard connector.

What’s an FDD cable?

FDD stands for floppy disk drive. The FDD connector contains 34-pins, and uses a FDD ribbon cable to connect to a 3 ½” floppy disk drive. Identify this cable by the twist between the first and second set of connectors, which allocates the drive at the end of the cable as FDD A, and the drive in the middle as FDD B.

What are the motherboard connectors?

Motherboard Diagram

CPU socket.
Chipset.
DIMM/RAM slots.
PCIe x16 slot.
PCI x1 slot.
M.2 connector.
SATA ports.
Front panel connectors.

What two types of connectors are attached to the motherboard?

There are two primary types of connectors found internally: socket connectors and power connectors. Socket connectors are designed for use with flat ribbon cable, and are generally used to transfer data among devices.

What are the two types of connectors in motherboard?

Types of Motherboard Connectors

CPU Socket. The CPU socket is the array of hundreds of holes or metal plates to which a computer’s central processing unit connects.
Memory Sockets.
Hard Drive Connectors.
Floppy Drive Connector.
Peripheral Connectors.
Add-on Card Connectors.
Power Connector.
Case Connectors.

How do I know if a graphics card is compatible with my motherboard?

How to know if a graphics card is compatible: Find the PCI Express slot. On many PCs, there will be a few expansion slots on the motherboard. Typically they will all be PCI Express, but for a graphics card you need a PCI Express x16 slot.

Can wrong RAM damage motherboard?

So yes it seems ram can indeed destroy a motherboard, either physicially or electronicaly.

What happens if RAM is faster than motherboard?

Your computer will work just fine if you install the faster RAM. It will simply run at the slower 1333Mhz speed. Your motherboard will recognize those faster RAM sticks as being compatible (because they are) and allow the system to boot up and operate normally after you install them.