Build Your Own PC - Step 5: Making Motherboard Connections
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There are 5 pins across the Bottom. The front panel header is a series of pins, sticking up out of the motherboard. Although that motherboard is toast, im going on the assumption that the GOOD RAM that came with it 256 MB and the 1.
E Pins 6 and 8 are for the Power On switch. Starting on the LEFT side coming across to the Right, Bottom row; Pins 1, 3, and 5. To get your PC to turn on when you push the power button, you need to connect the power switch to the motherboard.
How to Connect the Power LED to a MSI Motherboard - Pin 6 is for the Negative - wire of a buzzer. If you Do Not, have your documents set to save to your My Documents folder Documents for Vista , the file will go to your desktop screen.
The simple way is to remove the front panel of the computer trace the wires to the front panel leds, make note of color pair to each led. The using the manual that came with the motherboard locate the schematic for the JFP1 connector on the motherboard, it show's where the leds wires connect to operate. If you have no manual, if you look very closely at the connector you will see where the led wires connect, you may have to use a magnifiying glass and flash light. You cannot damage anything if you accidently place the led wires in the wrong place. If the panel led wires are in a single connector and won't work on the motherboard, you can remove the wires from the connector by using a very small sharp pointed pick to push down the retaining tab on each wire, thus enabling it to be removed from the connector, just be patient. BPCS Hi there, Save hours of searching online or wasting money on unnecessary repairs by talking to a 6YA Expert who can help you resolve this issue over the phone in a minute or two. Best thing about this new service is that you are never placed on hold and get to talk to real repairmen in the US. Hover your mouse cursor on the Download tab. This is a Zip file. If you do not know how to open a Zip file, please state in a Comment, and I will guide you. The front of your computer is the Front Panel. The area of contact pins on the motherboard, that the main wires from the Front Panel go to, is the Front Panel header. The Front Panel header is divided into two headers on the motherboard. This you have stated, JFP1 and JFP2. Junction Front Panel 1, and Junction Front Panel 2 JFP1 is for the Power On switch, HarDDrive activity LED, Reset Switch, and a two wire Power On LED. Dual color JFP1: 4 pins across the Top row. The pins on the Top row are numbered EVEN. The pins on the Bottom row are numbered ODD. Starting on the LEFT side coming across to the Right side, Top row; Pins 2, 4, 6, and 8. There is NO pin 10. Starting on the LEFT side coming across to the Right, Bottom row; Pins 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. A Pins 1 and 3 are for the HarDDrive activity LED. Pin 1 is for the Positive + wire. If the HDD LED is dim when the Harddrive is active, switch the wires around. B Pins 5 and 7 are for a Reset switch, IF a Reset switch is used. It is reserved for the factory to use. D Pins 2 and 4 are for a two wire Power On LED. Pin 2 is for the Positive + wire. If the PWR ON LED is dim when the computer is on, switch the wires around. E Pins 6 and 8 are for the Power On switch. F There is NO pin 10. JFP2: 4 pins across the Top row. The pins on the Top row are numbered EVEN. The pins on the Bottom row are numbered ODD. Starting on the LEFT side coming across to the Right, Top row; Pins 2, 4, 6, and 8. Starting on the LEFT side coming across to the Right, Bottom row; Pins 1, 3, and 5. There is NO pin 7. A Pins 1, 3 and 5 are for a dual color Power On LED. Pin 1 is for the Negative - wire. Pin 2 is for a Yellow, or Orange part of the dual color Power On LED. Pin 3 is for a Green part of a dual color Power On LED. Pin 2 is for the Negative - wire of a speaker. Pin 8 is for the Positive + wire of a speaker. Pin 4 is for the Positive + wire of a buzzer. Pin 6 is for the Negative - wire of a buzzer. For additional questions please post in a Comment. The plastic front of the computer is the Front Panel. The area of pins on the motherboard, that the cables Wires from the Front Panel connect to, is the Front Panel header. The motherboard for an eMachines W3400 desktop computer is an MSI ms-7145 Micro Star International Orient the motherboard in your view so that we are both looking at it the same way. Processor to the Top, Ram Memory slots to the Right, white PCI slots 3 to the Bottom. JFP1 is the Front Panel header. Junction Front Panel 1 JFP1 is on the Bottom Right corner. There are two columns of pins arranged vertically. The JFP1 header runs parallel to the Right side of the motherboard The Left side column of the JFP1 header is numbered Odd. Starting at the Top and going Down, the pins are numbered; 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 The Right side column is numbered Even. Starting at the Top and going Down, the pins are numbered: 2, 4, 6, and 8. There is NO Pin 10 A Pins 1 and 3 are for the HarDDrive Activity LED light. HDD If the LED light is dim will operating switch the wires around B Pins 5 and 7 are for the Reset switch. No Connection D Pins 2 and 4 are for the Power On LED light If dim switch the wires around E Pins 6 and 8 are for the Power On switch. Power On button Trace the wires back to the Power On switch. Even if it means temporarily removing part of the Front Panel to see. Same with the LED lights. See which wires go to the Power On LED, and HDD Activity LED. Harddrive Activity LED Follow the 3 wires, and tell me where they go to on the Front Panel. Also known as RS480M This is MSI Support, and the download page for the motherboard manual, for the RS480M motherboard, To the Right of the photo of the motherboard, you will see a gray bar with, BIOS, Driver, Utility, Manual, and RSS. On the next page look under the heading to the right - Document. Left-click on the blue - E7145v2. A small window will come up with the heading - Opening E7145v2. Where this file will go. If you Do Not, have your documents set to save to your My Documents folder Documents for Vista , the file will go to your desktop screen. In either place Double-click on the file. Now go up to the left, and click on - Extract All Files. Click on Next, and Finish. You will now see a PDF icon. Double-click on this icon. Go to Page 15. The plastic panel on the front of your computer is the Front Panel. This is where the Power On switch, Power On LED, and HDD LED are located. The connector on the motherboard where the cables Wires attach to, is the Front Panel header. The front panel header is a series of pins, sticking up out of the motherboard. The MSI ms-7145 motherboard, RS480M has the Front Panel header separated into two headers. JFP1, and JFP2 Looking at the motherboard with the Processor socket to the top, and the Ram Memory slots to the right, the JFP1, and JFP2 front panel headers are located at the extreme bottom Right, of the motherboard. Page 38 shows the connections for the JFP1, and JFP2 headers. The JFP1 header, and the JFP2 header, consists of two rows of pins in a horizontal column. The pins are arranged parallel, to the bottom edge of the motherboard. Right above the JFP1, and JFP2 header may be three pins, with two of the pins have a jumper. We will not concern ourselves with this jumper header BIOS with Protect Jumper The JFP1, and JFP2 headers are close together. There is no separation in-between them. The JFP2 header is for an internal speaker. The JFP1 header is for the Front Panel cables. The JFP1 header pins start from the right side of the motherboard, and go towards the left. There are 5 pins across the Bottom. Going from right to left There is NO pin, then there are 4 pins across the Top. Again, going from Right towards the left The top row of pins are numbered Evenly. The bottom row of pins are numbered Odd. Starting on the Right side, going towards the left for the Top row of pins, the pins are numbered, 10 NO pin for 10 , 8, 6, 4, and 2. Starting on the Right side, going towards the left for the Bottom row of pins, the pins are numbered, 9, 7, 5, 3, and 1. If applicable 5 Pin 9 is not used. Download Adobe; Open manual to page 9. There is no need to connect JFP2's Power LED jumper, this is completed at JFP1. Each wire jumper coming from the case will have one wire color in common with all connectors except the speaker jumper. That common colored wire will be use as negative. The speaker wire commonly as red is positive and black is negative. The file is in. Pin 6 is power switch high reference pull-up. Pin 8 is power switch low reference pull-down to ground. Information from page 2-17 in the manual. The wires come from the Front Panel, where your Power On button is. The pins on the motherboard are called Headers. Your Power On switch, It's behind that button , the Reset switch, Harddrive Activity Lamp, Light , and so on, connect to the Front Panel headers on the motherboard. That explained, let's continue; This is in reference to the MSI K9N6SGM-V motherboard. If this is not the model of your MSI motherboard, come back with an additional comment, and state the Model Number. It is a Zip file. I'll explain how to open that file. S, in the blue button. A small window will pop-up. Minimize all windows that are open, to see your desktop screen. You will now be looking at the Motherboard Manual, for your MSI motherboard. Page 7 shows your Front Panel headers. There are two of them. Junction Front Panel 1, and Junction Front Panel 2 JFP1 is on the bottom right. There are 5 rows of 2 pins each. The pins go down in a column. There is NO pin on the top Left of the column. JLPC1 is a header to the immediate Left of JFP1. It has 7 rows of 2 pins, but 1 pin is missing 3 over from the right side, and on top Disregard the JLPC1 header. The JFP2 header is to the Left of the JLPC1 header. It has 5 rows of 2 pins, with NO pin in the bottom right corner. At the very bottom of Page 13 it shows you where your Front Panel connectors go. When I refer to the page numbers, look at the very top of the PDF file in the Square box. The Square box is to the right of the Blue Down Arrow. I am not referring to the page number on the page itself Use the Additional Comments if you have further questions about this. Here is a diagram of another MSI similiar and usually they have their pins on their jumpers pretty much the same. I know your motherboard is setup differnently, but your JFP1 should be in the right hand corner all by itself.
How to Connect Front Panel connectors to your Motherboard
The bottom row of pins are numbered Odd. I did all the easy stuff with the RAM and the processor, the heat fan and main power and IDE cables, and ive been following the users guide for autobus to the best of my ability and carefully as possible. Page 7 shows your Front Panel headers. Figure 35: Bundling the power supply leads The power lead for the front intake fan attaches to the front fan point on the motherboard. Since white is the nuetral met, OR NEGATIVEi put the colored wire side on the leftmost pin, correspondingly. Fortunately, most motherboards and cases have a single block connector that plugs into the front audio connector on the motherboard.
