White connector on motherboard?

[DavidVioMC]

I'm not sure what the white connector is for, I know the black one is a PCIe for GPU's and it even says on the motherboard but by the white one it only says SLOT2, and since it says SLOT1 by the PCIe I guess it's second PCIe? But it looks odd

 

[Mark RM]

It's called a PCI connector, the old thing we had before PCIe and after 16 bit ISA slots... they are there for backward compatibility with older cards (network, sound etc)

 

[Dugimodo]

OMG I'm getting old. Hard to conceive there are people working on their PC's that have never seen a PCI slot. Next you'll tell me you don't know what AGP is and have never heard of ISA or EISA.

You could just have read the motherboard manual to find out what that was and if you don't have it finding the support page on the manufacturers website would give you access to it. If you are going to be poking around inside PC's these are skills you should develop.

 

[DavidVioMC]

OMG I'm getting old. Hard to conceive there are people working on their PC's that have never seen a PCI slot. Next you'll tell me you don't know what AGP is and have never heard of ISA or EISA.

You could just have read the motherboard manual to find out what that was and if you don't have it finding the support page on the manufacturers website would give you access to it. If you are going to be poking around inside PC's these are skills you should develop.

It's a Dell 0K075K out of Dell Optiplex 960 SFF Series and I don't have a manual nor you can find anything about it online, there is literally 1 website that sell this motherboard so it just proves how rare these things are and how hard is to find information about it.

I'm 18 and only been studying computer engineering for two years so I still haven't seen the ancient connectors and parts from PCs

 

[Mark RM]

OMG I'm getting old.

You are getting old. Are you in the market for any 8" floppy drives? I have a pair here. I even have a box of Maxell 256K media (ten pieces) if you need them to do your backups. C'mon, that's like 2560KB of storage, that's enough for anyone.

On a serious note, I'm making a custom interface for Win 10 so they'll actually work. I intend to build them into my desk like in the old days when my Unix workstation was delivered as a functional desk with a computer built into it.

 

[Dugimodo]

https://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/optix/en/desktop-optiplex-960-technical-guidebook-en.pdf

Yep hard to find, took less than a minute. Google is your friend.

Also that Ancient comment hurt, just a little.