PC internal cable colours - help
 

Hi,

Trying to marry my power,reset and LED cables to my mother board.

The colours are.

Red
Red
Blue
Green
White
Yellow


On red and red I get continuity when I depress the ST switch. So I can safely assume thats the power switch.

On the other colours I get no continuity but I do get 2.5M ohms between all other colours. So I assume these are the LED's. Put I cant pair them. There is a parallel path between them all.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT1: I did it. I used the Diode test function and they lit up when I got it right. Good old multimeter :-P

Yellow + and white - are HDD LED
Blue - Green + for Orange Power LED
Green - Blue + for Blue Power LED

I guess the only thing Im lacking is a reset button. So what should I do about that?
Looks like after today I wont have to hotwire my PC with a screwdriver.

cut the red cut the red

Hahah, I cut all of them! Going to splice and solder them to some different connectors so they fit my mobo.

Most modern PC-Housings doesn't have a reset-button.
Why? Because you have to let your OS to shut down.
If you want to reset, just press your power-button more than 5 seconds. Normally then he should be switched off.

I see, so the two pins on the MoBo are just in case the case has a reset button and is entirely optional.

Thanks

That might be provision for an "anti-intrusion" micro switch, which warns whether your computer casing has been opened; eg http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Int...specifications

Internal I/O Connectors "Chassis Intrusion connector"

Hmmm....I have an HAF922 and that has a reset button, not aware that all those cases on newegg do not have a reset button.

And Farber, Jesus crime in Italy, did you get yourself a proper case or are you still fiddeling around with that HP thing?

BS, no OC'er will ever buy it.
While OC'ing two things will happen
a: BSOD where a reset button wont help
b: system hang where a reset button actually does help

Branded retail PCs on the other hand usually never have reset buttons.

Rem: Kodoss, how do you like the cmos reset on our board? lol :evil:

Hewlit Packard Sandwich box :-P