Thanks. That is the conclusion I came to. Then just now I had a look on Youtube and there is a video of someone with this PC and guess what? A single straight through floppy cable with no twist. Mystery solved. I'm glad because I thought I was going mad 😀

Regarding the floppy swap comment, the CMOS was cleared and the battery removed so I fail to understand why the default position would be as described in my initial post (i.e. B: swapped with A:) Secondly there is no floppy swap option on what is a Compaq propriety BIOS unless there is a hidden menu …

Clearly you didn't understand what was going on in the photo. (Sarcasm isn't necessary). The floppy drive is plugged into the B position but set up in BIOS as A drive. For reasons I cannot work out the positions on the lead are reversed.

The drives are swapped!

Evening, Here is one for you. I bought this motherboard from Ebay from a very nice seller but ran into a problem when I connected a 1.44 Mb floppy drive. The motherboard just kept throwing up an error 601 Diskette Controller Error. Having spent some time trying to work out the problem I decided to …

Hi, I need help please. I have the above sound card and need the drivers for Windows 98, which drivers do I download? Am I right in thinking this PCI card will work in DOS? If so are there drivers for this. Sorry for my ignorance