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Dean,<br />
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Believe it or not, a lot of the newer motherboards are sensitive to the ribbon cables. If you don't use the cables that come with the motherboard you can have this problem.<br />
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FIC motherboards are like this. If you used the original cables try swapping for the new ones. Pull the I/O card and reactivate the on board Com ports first.<br />
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Cumbo<br />

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Dean,

Believe it or not, a lot of the newer motherboards are sensitive to the ribbon cables. If you don't use the cables that come with the motherboard you can have this problem.

FIC motherboards are like this. If you used the original cables try swapping for the new ones. Pull the I/O card and reactivate the on board Com ports first.

Cumbo


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cumbo:<br />
&nbsp;Heh, not to mention some of the newer motherboards come with ribbon cables that have those nifty little black plastic ridges on the floppy drive connector. Heh, darn if I didn't have to snip that puppy off as my floppy drive had a reversed connection. :) Silly manufacturers.<br />

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cumbo:
 Heh, not to mention some of the newer motherboards come with ribbon cables that have those nifty little black plastic ridges on the floppy drive connector. Heh, darn if I didn't have to snip that puppy off as my floppy drive had a reversed connection. :) Silly manufacturers.


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