Dell Optiplex 9010 Motherboard in New Case?

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Hello everyone,

So today I decided to swap the motherboard from my Optiplex 9010 (with an i5 3570, fan and 8gb of ddr3) with my current board (with a fx 6300 and 8gb of ddr3 too) as it seemed to have better performance. I managed to screw the 'new' motherboard in just fine, and connected the main cables, until I found that the front panel connectors didn't seem to have anywhere to go, most importantly the power switch. There seems to be a different connector with 5 pins (labelled "PWR_SW") on the motherboard instead. Does anyone have any experience with installing this motherboard or a similar one in a new case? Would I need some kind of adapter? If needed I can also take some pictures.

Another thing: Would the motherboard deliver enough power for my RX 460? Or a R9 290? The power supply is enough, but I probably should have checked the motherboard beforehand...

Thank you!

Edit: Images:

Front panel connectors: (The one you can't see is "RESET SW")

Motherboard picture 1

Motherboard picture 2 (This is the motherboard power switch connector)

Motherboard picture 3

Optiplex 9010 case

Optiplex motherboard in my case

Optiplex power switch connector

 
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Imagine the Powser SW socket has the 5 pins as below, _ is a missing pin

1 2
3 4
_ 5

Connect 1-2 for power switch connector from the front panel.
connent 3-5 for the power LED connector.
You can ignore pin 4.

For the Front Panel Socket, imagine the 19 pins are as below:
_ 1 2 3 4 5- 6 7 8 9
0 1 2 3 4 5+ 6 7 8 9

ignore most of them, only connect 5-5+ pins to your HardDisk LED connector, with 5- as negative pin and 5+ as positive pin.
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Lutfij

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1| The first mistake you made was transplanting the innards to another case.
2| The board you're dealing with is essentially laden with proprietary connectors. If not the PSU connections, the front panel connections will prevent you from moving forward.
3| The connector you've mentioned are not explained in detail as to their pin outs(per the owners manual).

Edit:
I just fixed your image links and you turned that upside down...again.
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01swodniW

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Oops, sorry about the links...
I know that my friend was able to do it with the exact same motherboard (I had two Optiplexes, so I gave him the parts as the PSU and HDD of one of them were both dead) , however as of now he is unable to access his PC to show me how he did it. So that leads me to believe it is possible.
 
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It is probably possible to do it, but unless you find someone here who has done that exact swap I don't think this forum can help you very much. Dell uses temperature sensors, and 4 LED diagnostic displays that are non standard, and they use various pinouts which they don't document. They aren't even the same between various dells.
 
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Are you talking about in general, or for this particular board? If you're talking about this board in particular, could you please send an image of what you mean? I'd really appreciate it :)
 
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Imagine the Powser SW socket has the 5 pins as below, _ is a missing pin

1 2
3 4
_ 5

Connect 1-2 for power switch connector from the front panel.
connent 3-5 for the power LED connector.
You can ignore pin 4.

For the Front Panel Socket, imagine the 19 pins are as below:
_ 1 2 3 4 5- 6 7 8 9
0 1 2 3 4 5+ 6 7 8 9

ignore most of them, only connect 5-5+ pins to your HardDisk LED connector, with 5- as negative pin and 5+ as positive pin.
 
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Alright, I'll try that when I can. Thank you!
 
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It worked! Thank you so much! I just had to remove the black plastic part on top of it. I'm not too worried about the other connectors.
 
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