Both the diskette drive and hard disk drive sockets on the main system board have a notch on one side. The hard disk drive socket is closest to the front of the main system board and the diskette drive socket is behind it. The hard disk drive socket is also a bit longer.
Connect the diskette drive ribbon cable first. As shown below, there is a tab on one side of the connector.
diskette drive connector
tab
diskette drive socket
notch
Align the connector with the socket so that the tab on the connector lines up with the notch in the socket. Make sure the holes in the connector fit over all the pins in the socket and then push the connector onto the pins.
If you do not correctly align the holes with the pins in the socket, you could severely damage your computer when you push in the connector.
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