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From: Puddin' Man on 13 May 2010 20:55
Connection labeling

Anybody ever hassled connection labeling from different vendors?

I gotta Corsair 400w PSU, Asus mobo, and Antec 300 Illusion case. Several
of the labels match OK. Others (Antec RESET SW, Asus SB_PWR) are potentially
ambiguous.

Anybody ever seen a cross-ref for such labels?

Thx,
P

"Law Without Equity Is No Law At All. It Is A Form Of Jungle Rule."

From: Grinder on 14 May 2010 02:45
On 5/13/2010 7:55 PM, Puddin' Man wrote:
> Connection labeling
>
> Anybody ever hassled connection labeling from different vendors?
>
> I gotta Corsair 400w PSU, Asus mobo, and Antec 300 Illusion case. Several
> of the labels match OK. Others (Antec RESET SW, Asus SB_PWR) are potentially
> ambiguous.
>
> Anybody ever seen a cross-ref for such labels?

It's not been much of problem in the past. At any rate, it shouldn't be
difficult to sort out. The power supply isn't an issue at all, the
plugs are all polarized. It's the front panel stuff between the
motherboard and case that might give you some fits. What motherboard do
you have?

The case is straight-forward:

http://www.antec.com/pdf/manuals/300_EN%20manual.pdf

Other than the audio and USB connectors, there are only 4 (two-wire)
leads for the case:

RESET_SW
POWER_SW
POWER_LED
HDD_LED

The RESET_SW may not have a corresponding connector on your motherboard,
so figure out the other first. Polarity matters for the _LED leads, but
not POWER_SW or RESET_SW.

I just picked out a random Asus LGA775 board (P5G41C-M), and found these
named headers:

RESET
PWRSW
PLED
IDE_LED

Those correspond to the case names above. There's also a SPEAKER block,
but it appears the 300 does not have a speaker.

The USB connectors should be 2x5 pin plug thats polarized by one of the
corner pins missing.

Audio appears to have HD and AC'97 plugs. They are mechanically
compatible so it should fit *the* front panel audio connector on your
motherboard. On the asus board I picked, audio connector selection is
done in bios.


From: Puddin' Man on 15 May 2010 18:46
Thanks. That was helpful.

Board is P7H55D-M EVO. I should've mentioned it.

Might've helped if I'd ignored the "documentation". :-)

P

On Fri, 14 May 2010 01:45:59 -0500, Grinder <grinder(a)no.spam.maam.com> wrote:

>It's not been much of problem in the past. At any rate, it shouldn't be
>difficult to sort out. The power supply isn't an issue at all, the
>plugs are all polarized. It's the front panel stuff between the
>motherboard and case that might give you some fits. What motherboard do
>you have?
>
>The case is straight-forward:
>
>http://www.antec.com/pdf/manuals/300_EN%20manual.pdf
>
>Other than the audio and USB connectors, there are only 4 (two-wire)
>leads for the case:
>
>RESET_SW
>POWER_SW
>POWER_LED
>HDD_LED
>
>The RESET_SW may not have a corresponding connector on your motherboard,
>so figure out the other first. Polarity matters for the _LED leads, but
>not POWER_SW or RESET_SW.
>
>I just picked out a random Asus LGA775 board (P5G41C-M), and found these
>named headers:
>
>RESET
>PWRSW
>PLED
>IDE_LED
>
>Those correspond to the case names above. There's also a SPEAKER block,
>but it appears the 300 does not have a speaker.
>
>The USB connectors should be 2x5 pin plug thats polarized by one of the
>corner pins missing.
>
>Audio appears to have HD and AC'97 plugs. They are mechanically
>compatible so it should fit *the* front panel audio connector on your
>motherboard. On the asus board I picked, audio connector selection is
>done in bios.
>

"Law Without Equity Is No Law At All. It Is A Form Of Jungle Rule."

From: Grinder on 16 May 2010 15:48
Grinder wrote:
>> It's not been much of problem in the past. At any rate, it shouldn't be
>> difficult to sort out. The power supply isn't an issue at all, the
>> plugs are all polarized. It's the front panel stuff between the
>> motherboard and case that might give you some fits. What motherboard do
>> you have?
>>
>> The case is straight-forward:
>>
>> http://www.antec.com/pdf/manuals/300_EN%20manual.pdf
>>
>> Other than the audio and USB connectors, there are only 4 (two-wire)
>> leads for the case:
>>
>> RESET_SW
>> POWER_SW
>> POWER_LED
>> HDD_LED
>>
>> The RESET_SW may not have a corresponding connector on your motherboard,
>> so figure out the other first. Polarity matters for the _LED leads, but
>> not POWER_SW or RESET_SW.
>>
>> I just picked out a random Asus LGA775 board (P5G41C-M), and found these
>> named headers:
>>
>> RESET
>> PWRSW
>> PLED
>> IDE_LED
>>
>> Those correspond to the case names above. There's also a SPEAKER block,
>> but it appears the 300 does not have a speaker.
>>
>> The USB connectors should be 2x5 pin plug thats polarized by one of the
>> corner pins missing.
>>
>> Audio appears to have HD and AC'97 plugs. They are mechanically
>> compatible so it should fit *the* front panel audio connector on your
>> motherboard. On the asus board I picked, audio connector selection is
>> done in bios.

Puddin' Man wrote:
> Thanks. That was helpful.
>
> Board is P7H55D-M EVO. I should've mentioned it.
>
> Might've helped if I'd ignored the "documentation". :-)

Grinder writes:
Yeah, it looks like that board uses the same naming convention as the
randomly selected Asus board in my example.
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