1 pin front panel to mobo connectors

Kaldar · Jan 14, 2006, 07:45 PM

ok, you know all those 1 pin connectors from the front panel to the motherboard? yeah..... mine say stuff like vp, gnd, vcc, tpb, tpa, + d, -d, vc and many more just like that but with minor alterations...... now my manual doesnt have anything labeled like that..... so any help please?

swimtech · Jan 14, 2006, 08:13 PM

Some of those terms make sense to me, others don't...

Motherboard make and model please?

Kaldar · Jan 14, 2006, 08:18 PM

motherboard is an asus a8v, case is an xoxide x-ventilator

swimtech · Jan 14, 2006, 09:34 PM

vcc and vc generally have to do with power, gnd is ground - the others I would have to guess at. Yes, I was looking at your mainboard manual and the terms don't match. Those terms would hopefully be described in your case manual - which I didn't see online...

Kaldar · Jan 14, 2006, 10:11 PM

yeah, the case didnt come with anything but a crapload of screws. lol

Tipstaff · Jan 15, 2006, 12:11 AM

Looks like your describing both USB and Firewire headers. Infact, TPA, TPB, VP, GND are specific to Firewire, and -d/+d, and GND are specific to USB.

Now, depending on what A8V board you have (there are 3 A8V boards: A8V, A8V Deluxe, and A8V-E Deluxe) you may or may not have the firewire header (firewire header comes on the Deluxe models). In any case just match up the direction of the headers according to what you want to hookup. Here's a couple pics for you to look at:

Firewire:

(Ignore the grey S-GND unless the case header has it)

USB:

For USB headers there is also -d and +d which seems to be the case with the ones you've mentioned. On the pic they will be listed as USB- and USB+. The easiest way to hook it up is to remember the order: red, white, green, and black (or +5, -d, +d, GND). Again, very rarily you will see the grey one (almost never, actually).

Now, the ones for sound are a bit more complicated, but here is one for that too:

For MIC:

The listing goes: 1 = Mic-IN, 2 = GND, 3 = MIC-Power , 4 = nothing, 5 = R-OUT, 6 = R-IN/Return, 7 = nothing, 8 = nothing (should be no pin there), 9 = L-OUT, 10 = L-IN/Return

You might find 2 plastic jumpers between 5/6, and 9/10 on your motherboard. You will need to remove them first. If you have 2 grounds (1 for mic, 1 for audio), then you have 2 options: 1) try to remove the wire for the audio or mic from it's plastic casing, and mix it with the other one so that they share pin 2 (a little surgery needed as you will need to slide the wire into the casing of the other GND), or 2) you can forego hooking up the Mics Ground, and hookup the audio one instead.

Kaldar · Jan 15, 2006, 08:02 PM

thank you guys you have been a great help to me, i have the a8v base model, just A8V. so i don't think i have the firewire option. but now for the usb thing, my motherboard has two usb headers, does it matter which one i hook these wires up to? and i can successfully install the wires via colour code, right? i'm also having a tad bit of trouble with the system panel connectors. i'm not entirely sure where the power sw, hdd led, resest sw, +, and - go. or atleast i think thats all the wires, lol so much clutter in my case right.

Tipstaff · Jan 15, 2006, 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Kaldar

thank you guys you have been a great help to me, i have the a8v base model, just A8V. so i don't think i have the firewire option. but now for the usb thing, my motherboard has two usb headers, does it matter which one i hook these wires up to? and i can successfully install the wires via colour code, right? i'm also having a tad bit of trouble with the system panel connectors. i'm not entirely sure where the power sw, hdd led, resest sw, +, and - go. or atleast i think thats all the wires, lol so much clutter in my case right.

Going by the layout for your board (referring to page 2-3, and 2-26 of your manual) you want to hook up the front panel USB to the ones on the motherboard listed as USB56. USB78 will usually share it's connection properties (IRQ, power, and so fourth) with one of the backpanel ones. Most manufacturers tell you that if you hook up to the 2nd set of USB headers (in your case USB78) that you shouldn't use the 2 lowest backpanel connectors since you will be drawing too much resources for all of them to be stable if you have device hooked up to all of them at the same time. So, my advice would be to hookup the USB56 header, first, then go from there if needed.

As for the frontpanel connectors, this is quite simple: + is positive (normally solid colored wire), and - is negative (normally white, black, or white and colored stripe wire). Referring to the same page (2-3, and top of 2-28) you want to pay attention to the picture of your board at the bottom right of the page. Looking at your board from top down, back panel to the left, all your positives (+) will be to the left. Don't worry about the power switch, or reset switch positives. Either way you connect them they will work as they should (as a switch). You do need to pay attention to the positives of the power led, and hard drive led, and as for the speaker it can depend on the board, but most likely you should be fine with it either way. Some cases don't care how these last 3 are connected, and will light up as normaly, while some cases will not light up their indicators, or they can show up as on (active) when they are actually not (or off), or they may seem dull looking.

BTW, I'm not sure if were able to hookup your front panel audio or not, but there is a much better description of the connector in your manual on page 2-27. Refer to that along with my instructions on connecting it, and you should do fine.

**dj_stick** · Jan 16, 2006, 03:27 AM

as for the last part of tipstaff's big post, you won't need to "share" the ground, as the ground is shared at the front panel usually

Tipstaff · Jan 16, 2006, 04:51 AM

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Originally Posted by dj_stick

as for the last part of tipstaff's big post, you won't need to "share" the ground, as the ground is shared at the front panel usually

I wish case designers would stick with the block connectors for the audio, firewire, and USB leads (single block strips, or 2x2 blocks are just fine). For the front panel connectors such as power, and what not I can see having seperate leads, but the others are usually the same layout from board to board unless your deciding to hook them up to an add-in card. It just doesn't need to be so difficult.

Anyways, hopefully your right, DJ. I have a feeling that since all his front panel leads are single wires that there is probably a ground for mic, a ground for audio, and that they didn't wire them together anywhere down the line. Either way, with what we've given him he should get it setup in no time.