LGA 1151 MOBO with floppy connector & 2 PCI slots

[aoresteen]

I'm looking for an ATX mobo with LGA 1151 CPU socket, 2 PCI (not PCIe) slots, and a floppy drive connector. Not sure if one exists. Computer will be used for gneral office work & legacy programing.

I used to use mobot at motherboards.org but after spending 30 minutes on their site I could not figure out how to do a mobo search & PCPartPicker doesn't seem to have an option for a floppy drive port.

While I could use a USB floppy (if the BIOS will find it and boot from it) I prefer to have an internal 3.5" 1.4MB floppy as I will be dual booting between DOS & Windows 7.

Any mobos out there that meet my specs?

Thanks!

 

[JackNaylorPE]

You might be better served with a floppy drive with USB connector

External - https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA10V4D11028

Internal w/ Card reader - https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820192022

 

[aoresteen]

Thanks. I have a number of the external USB floppy drives that I use on occasion. As I stated the MOBO has to be able to boot from it. That is hard to figure out. But with an on-board floppy connector booting is never an issue.

 

[coozie7]

Several 1151 motherboards support PCI legacy slots, here's one: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus-prime-b250-plus-intel-b250-socket-1151-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-698-as.html
As for the floppy support, I've really no idea, I haven't seen a MB with an IDE connector for quite some years, maybe this'll help: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/use-floppy-disk-windows-10

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Thanks. I have a number of the external USB floppy drives that I use on occasion. As I stated the MOBO has to be able to boot from it. That is hard to figure out. But with an on-board floppy connector booting is never an issue.

oops...forgot this part. Will Bootable USB stick work ? BIOS support would be a concern

https://www.howtogeek.com/136987/how-to-create-a-bootable-dos-usb-drive/

 

[Rogue Leader]

There are no 1151 boards with an IDE connector (floppy or otherwise), in fact I haven't seen an IDE connector on a current model board since like 2009.

Booting from the floppy is possible but I wouldn't count on it. For whatever you need to be able to boot from a floppy for I'd question if the software will even correctly work on the system. Why not slap together an old legacy system for that stuff.

 

[WyomingKnott]

First, I admit that I can't answer your question.
Second, I run a tri-boot system: Win10, XP, and DOS. My system is old and does NOT have an 1151 board, so this may not be relevant, but I could boot DOS and install DOS just fine if I use a small USB drive and clone the DOS floppy to it. Once DOS is running, my USB floppy drive runs happily. Is this close enough to a solution to work for you?