Front panel audio connections to mtherboard and case Hd audio or AC97

HELP, panic, could someone research for me! DO NOT want to blowup moterboard by hooking up wrong or wrong connector! I've tried researching but still don't know if can just plug in and which one.

Do not have a clue on hooking up front panel audio header, case comes with two 10 pin connestors.
(one HD audio and one AC 97, these connectors are all one piece can't seperate wires individualy.)

I have a gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P and RAIDMAX AZTEC ATX-619WB Computer Case.

Building for my son, my first computer build.

He will just be using headphones on front audio connector (maybe microphone later).

Oh, no. Not this question again.

At the risk of sounding rude, RTFM.

Read the freakin' manual.

(As I leaf through my GA-EP45-UD3P manual)

A section in the front of manual lists specifications. A section later talks about internal connections. Those say the motherboard supports HD audio by default. A third section in back describes how to change it to AC-97.

Your case included both connectors so it could be compatible with both old and new motherboards, nearly all of which support HDA.

Thanks for the HELP and guidance, first time doing something a little slow sometimes, and paranoid when seeing jumpers on connector and seeing labeled (+5V on case manual and -acz_det on motherboard manual, etc.) different.

I have read the motherboard manual, my confusion is case manual had different labels for motherboard pins and showed case connections as individual wires and my actual case has all wires in a single connector. So I have no idea what wires are connected to, only 1 single label on connector HD Audio or AC 97, where as case manual has individualy labeled and landed on individual pins. Just hope they have it wired right to some standard way of doing things.

I just need to ignore case manual as it is actually a GENERAL diagram not specific to my moterboard.


???Question if I plug in and try to use ac97 or the default HD Audio is it possible to burn up moterboard.???

Thanks again from newbie, doesn't sound like much of a problem then.

I had read somewhere you could fry motherboard if wires on wrong pins (maybe for the individual wire type?) so didn't have time to RMA motherboard so being super cautious.

I will post back if problem, but seems simple for now.

Use the default HDA. You have nothing to lose. Make sure you use the chipset drivers from the included CD.

The results are kind of cool. You plug a headset into the jack and the board detects it. You get a graphical popup that asks you what you just plugged in. And you just click on the headset.

And wlmz,
I apologize. I am getting old and crochety (my wife would say "getting?" ). Sometimes, I forget that I built my first computer a long time ago, back when "build" meant taking soldering iron in hand.
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Overclocking since 1978 - Z80 (TRS-80) from 1.77 MHz to 2.01 MHz

Hey, my wife swears they made a movie about me - "Grumpy, Old Men". I tell her that I don't think I'm that old.

Seriously. 82 or 83 sounds about right. I had a Kaypro II. That was a Z80A running at 4 MHz. Bumped that to 5 MHz. Had to replace the video controller. Wasn't ZCPR-3 great?

Back to the OP. wlmz, how are you doing with your build?

bilbat, I'm moving my reply to private messages.

Let's give the original poster his thread back.