> It is true you can easily misorient your connector especially on a cheap
AT
> oem motherboard, with no guides for the connector. I have done this many
> many times. However, it has numbers on pin 14 and 13 printed on the board.
> If you measure the voltages, you will find that the two rows are reversed
(I
> mean the numbers on the board should be on the other side)
>
> Paying a little extra for good branded h/w does worh it...

I once had a board with a D25 connector which had the shell inverter with
respect to the two rows of pins (the 12 pin row in the wider part of the
shell. I can't even imagine how that could have happend by accident.

Wouter van Ooijen

van Ooijen Technische Informatica: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wf/
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