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Need help with the panel pins on the motherboard

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March 3, 2014 12:06:47 PM

Hello everyone,

This is my first build and so far it's going okay *touch wood* However I've gotten to the part where I'm having to plug the panel cables into the panel pins on the motherboard itself. Here are pictures of the manual and the pins I'm referencing:

(http://imgur.com/dDFkl8T,hFzHoRV#0)


(http://imgur.com/dDFkl8T,hFzHoRV#1)

I'm getting confused because there is only 1 slot for the power switch yet the power switch pin has 2 pins on it. The same happens with the reset pin. I thought that perhaps they're suppose to plug into the ground as well? But then I'm unsure on which way round they go as well as where the HDD LED pins would then plug into as there is an +, - and a ground next to those slots but only 2 pins. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance,
Tom

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a b V Motherboard
March 3, 2014 12:12:19 PM

GND = Ground
The two pins for PWR goes into the PWR and GND, same thing for the others. As for + an -, I just go straight in and try it out to see if it works when I turn the PC on. There's no harm in plugging in the wrong ones, in addition, most of the time they all end up facing the same direction. Like downward towards GPU or upward towards CPU. My motherboard panel pin faces downward.
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a c 162 V Motherboard
March 3, 2014 12:18:29 PM

top left pl+ then pl- after power switch letters up bottom row left hdd led letter up and the last one reset and gr on the right .
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March 3, 2014 12:19:30 PM

Hi thanks for your reply! What about the HDD LED pins and the reset pins though? I assume the reset pins goes into the reset and ground on the far right (please correct me if I'm wrong)? But do the HDD LED pins go into the +, - slots? or do they go into one of the - and ground slots? Thanks for your help!
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a b V Motherboard
March 3, 2014 12:25:18 PM

PLED+ PLED- PWRBTN PWRBTN
HDLED+ HDLED- GND(leave it blank) RESET RESET

All of them with their label facing towards bottom(GPU)
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a c 162 V Motherboard
March 3, 2014 12:26:50 PM

hdd led with letter up in the bottom from the left pins 1 and the - pins that all you need .
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