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Old 04-07-2012, 01:49 PM
5./JG27.Farber 5./JG27.Farber is offline
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Default 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

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.

Last edited by 5./JG27.Farber; 04-07-2012 at 02:24 PM.
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