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Cappi106

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This is my first build, last night I did my external build to make sure it boots and I'm already stuck and worried I didn't make the right choice in building instead of buying. I have the MSI 970 gaming motherboard a 750watt power supply 8G of memory, AMD 8320 CPU, that number might be wrong could be 9320 and an evga nvidia gtx 660 video card. First I'm not 100% positive where the power pins are and what I think might be the power pins are not starting it up :(
 
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Metal pins sticking up from the board
Connector blocks JFP1 and JFP2
at the lower corner of the board that will be nearest the front when its mounted in a case

You will find a very nice diagram of the pin assignments on page 21 of the first chapter of the manual

The polarity of the power and reset switches is NOT important . The polarity of the LED's is , but it wont harm anything if you get it wrong . The light wont go is all
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Outlander_04

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the front panel header pins are usually at the bottom and front of the board

Your manual will tell you which is which on the block , and so will the small printing on the board next to them . There will be two pins for PWR . two for RST . Two for HDD LED , and two for PWR LED

If you have everything plugged in correctly then touching the two PWR pins briefly with the tip of a screwdriver will start the board
 
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Metal pins sticking up from the board
Connector blocks JFP1 and JFP2
at the lower corner of the board that will be nearest the front when its mounted in a case

You will find a very nice diagram of the pin assignments on page 21 of the first chapter of the manual

The polarity of the power and reset switches is NOT important . The polarity of the LED's is , but it wont harm anything if you get it wrong . The light wont go is all
 
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Cappi106

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Thank you, now that I'm back home I found the pins and the diagram on page 21, feel pretty dumb right about now but it won't start and I'm pretty sure everything is connected correctly.
 
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