- Aug 20, 2015
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I'm installing a new motherboard into my PC. I currently have a great prebuilt that was made in 2011 that I've been upgrading piece by piece for about a year. I was about to make a big upgrade by swapping all the components and CPU to a new ASRock 970M Pro3 motherboard, However I needed a Micro-ATX case to accommodate the new board. My cousin was nice enough to give me an old case which was surprisingly in really good condition. The case is from an old Gateway DX4200-09. I will of course be using only the case and it's built in ports and fans the rest of the hardware I have is new. As I'm installing the board in the case I notice a couple strange things. A lot of the case's wires matched up perfectly with my new board labels and all except for 2 of them. One of which was a USB wire with the plug having only 5 pins(one blocked out) in a 1X5 row. This plugged in just fine but left a row of pins uncovered. The other is a blue plug labeled 1394 it has the pins like a USB plug but My boards two USB slots were taken up by the black one-row USB wire and the other yellow USB(which pin's matched up perfectly BTW) The only other option on my board is a slot labeled Panel1 but the Pins don't match up. The 1394 wire corresponds to a port next to the audio ports that look similar to a USB port but obviously isn't. The audio ports had a separate wire labeled Audio1 which matched up perfectly to my board too. That leaves only this weird blue wire labeled 1394 matched up to nothing, Any ideas where I should plug it in or if I should just leave it unplugged? Also my motherboard has USB slot labeled USB 10-11 and USB 8-9 what's the difference between the two? Should I care which wire plugs in which slot?
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