No, I know it was not on upside down and I did not force it on. Like I said I already did this once before. So believe it or not I was being careful putting it on but I did it somewhat blindly (I'm getting older so I should've had my glasses on) and it felt like it slid on right I even pulled it back off and tried it again before I thought I had it right.
So I don't know how this is happening. It melted one of the prongs on the fl drive. I know it has the guide on the bottom so I don't know how it can miss. I know from now on I'm going to plug the power cord in and then slide fl in it's slot. I tried connecting the molex power cord from DVD rom into HD but no change. I havn't done anything else since posting here. Accept pulling CMOS batt.
I can't believe this happened over a pretty much dead technology. Is there any safeties built into the hardware to save other parts from the floppy burn up? How can I test my other hardware to see if it is ok?
Thanks for replies guys.
I tried what was suggested above but no change. I can get to BIOS but that's it. After that it's all black accept where it says something like
Reboot or try new boot device.
Now what?