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About DaZ FiZzle
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I can assist you with common problems and over-looks when assembling your pc. I can also assist with basic and advanced OS errors (XP & XP Pro Corporate are my specialty). My main weakness is Mac, and any other non-windows based operating systems. I'm also really rusty on anything prior to 98SE. I can offer advice on a range of software, codec, and driver needs. If you need help finding the right software for a job chances are I can point you toward it.

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18 years total experience. About 2 years of that is from formal training in a classroom setting, the rest is through my own trial and error and of course from the very helpful tutorials found on the internet.

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TCDE Tech Office

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2 years at college and am currently working as a technician for the local department of education

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T.A.G. (Talented And Gifted), Century 21 sponsored office award for exceeding 100WPM typing speed

 
   

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PC hardware--CPU & Motherboard & RAM - floppy


Expert: DaZ FiZzle - 6/25/2009

Question
Hello Daz,
It looks like people somewhat abandoned floppy nowadays.
I remembered there exists a socket accepting floppy in mainboard.
Mainboards made around these years still have a floppy socket?

Answer
hey moil,

yeah they still do.  go to the link i'll provide below and look at the top-down view of the motherboard.  there is an orange heatsink that says black series on it; to the right and below of that is 3 black pci slots, to the right of the pci slots is a shorter black port with lots of pins.  that's the floppy connector.  i think it's a 34-pin slot...i could be wrong though, i haven't used one of those in years.  

also FYI: the yellow port at the top with pins (40 i believe) is an IDE port, used for hard drives and optical drives, and the orange sockets above the heatsink are SATA (the "new" standard).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowImage.aspx?CurImage=13-135-085-S03&ISList=13-1...(V1.0)%20ATX%20AMD%20Motherboard%20-%20Retail


peace,
-DaZ

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