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Pin 1 on a ribbon cable is usually colored differently than the other pins. It is often red.
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What is the PIN for the ribbon cable?
What is the pin number for the ribbon cable?
Floppy drive cable is a 34-pin ribbon cable and a twist in the cable?
used on a floppy
When connecting a ribbon cable to a computer how do you know which direction to plug it in?
The red stripe on the ribbon cable indicates pin #1. Usually, pin #1 on the device is the one closest to the power connector.
Where do you connector the red edge of 40-pin ribbon cable to an IDE hard drive?
The red edge of a 40-pin ribbon cable is connected to pin one on the IDE hard drive. If you fail to do so correctly, it may result in the hard drive being completely unable to communicate with your system.
What goes between the floppy drive and motherboard?
A 34-pin ribbon cable.
What are three types of ribbon cables you might find inside a PC?
3 types of ribbon cables found in a PC are, a 34-pin floppy drive cable with twist, a 40-pin IDE cable with 40 wires, and a 40-pin IDE cable with 80 fine wires(80 conductor cable)A floppy drive cable, an IDE cable, and a CD or DVD drive cable
What connects with a ribbon cable?
A 34-pin ribbon cable will connect a floppy drive.A 40 (or 80) conductor ribbon cable is for (E)IDE devices.Other ribbon cables may be used (80 conductor for SCSI, and in older systems, MFM and RLL Hard drives).A smaller ribbon cable (10 conductors) may be used for USB Headers.I think that covers most of them.
How would you find pin1 of an internal hard or floppy disk ribbon cable?
By the colored stripe on the cable it refers to the first pin.
How does the Hard Drive connect to the mother board?
Hard Drives connect to the motherboard one of two ways. Either using a 40-wire/40-pin HDD ribbon cable, or an 80-wire/40-pin HDD ribbon cable. HDD stands for Hard Drive Disk.
On a flat data cable what does the red or blue stripe mean?
The red stripe marks pin one, which ensures the ribbon cable is pushed into the socket the correct way round.
How can you easily identify a dvi59 pin graphic card cable connector?
it is usually white and is a lot larger than the standered vga cable
How do you identify an Integrated drive electronics interface?
Check for the interface that is used to connect it to the motherboard using the IDE cables. If it is a 40 pin or 34 pin cable, then it will be an IDE interface device
