Firwire connector cable

colmc

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I have an old (6 or 7 years) Antec P180b case

This has (amongst others) a Firewire connector on the front. My problem is that the connector cable has a connector that does not fit the only internal socket on my PCI Firewire card. (My MOBO has no firewire socket).

Unfortunately I do not know exactly what type of cable it is. It seems similar to an MPC2 cable, but is double banked, so it has 10 female sockets, with pin one or pin 10 (depending on which way you look at it) blocked.

The other end (on my PCI card) is a 6 conenctor alpha socket.

So I'm look for a 10 pin male to 6 connector alpha Firewire cable.

Does anyone know if this exists? If so wher could I find one. I've trioeed Googling, but since I don't know a name fopr the 10 ping connector, I have not been able to get an answer yet.

Thanks

 

colmc

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I'm not sure if the part you suggest is right or not.

Unfortunately the web page doesn't have an image so I can't be sure.

The connector I have from the front panel on the case looks like this!

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It is a lousy photo, but hopefully it will let you see the style of connector. In this

image, the top left socket is blanked off.



My 1394/Firewire Card is

Mercury KOB 1394-SN31

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and according to the spec, it has 1 x IEEE1394.A Internal Ports


My motherboard is

Asus M2N4-SLI

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colmc

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But taking into account the price...
You have some pictures here:
http://www.meritline.com/ieee-firewire-pin-female-adapt...

Still seems doubtfull, but as you say, at the price, might be worth trying

BUT

there must be something like this http://www.amazon.ca/Syba-SY-PEX30001-PCi-Express-Firew...

Now I can see that that is exactly the solution! Even found the same card on sale here in the UK.

However, even better, was the use of the word "header" in the product decription. That was the missing word that gave me an even more relevant solution.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/INTERNAL-FIREWIRE-CABLE-6-pin-PLUG-to-2x5-WAY-HEADER-FOR-DEVICE-FRONT-PANEL-/231114153200?_trksid=p2054897.l4275

That gives me just the cable that I need with the two connectors.

So thanks to both for your help.

Much appreciated