Hi all,
I have a computer here I am upgrading. The case is old ATX (early 2000's I think) but everything fits ok. But the weird part is the front panel connectors. While they are standard and fit fine, when I had the power and HD lights set up according to the MB docs they wouldn't work. Case speaker, power, and reset buttons work fine, but not the lights.
At first I thought they weren't getting a good connection. The MB socket is in a odd spot and hard to get to with the case populated, not to mention the wires keep wanting to pull it back out of the socket. I hated to pull them back out as it took a long time to get the connectors to stay in the socket in the first place. In the end I did and I double checked the polarity (the back of the connectors has a little ^ which is standard). I did it right but they still wouldn't work. At one of those "pull your hair out" moments I flipped both the HD and case light connectors and reinserted them. When I finally got them to stay in the socket, to my surprise the lights now worked! Never saw a case that didn't have the ^ labeling the positive wire.
Now comes the question: should I reverse the speaker and switch (power and reset) connectors as well? They are working and I can't see why there would be a problem, but I thought I would ask here and double check.
I have a computer here I am upgrading. The case is old ATX (early 2000's I think) but everything fits ok. But the weird part is the front panel connectors. While they are standard and fit fine, when I had the power and HD lights set up according to the MB docs they wouldn't work. Case speaker, power, and reset buttons work fine, but not the lights.
At first I thought they weren't getting a good connection. The MB socket is in a odd spot and hard to get to with the case populated, not to mention the wires keep wanting to pull it back out of the socket. I hated to pull them back out as it took a long time to get the connectors to stay in the socket in the first place. In the end I did and I double checked the polarity (the back of the connectors has a little ^ which is standard). I did it right but they still wouldn't work. At one of those "pull your hair out" moments I flipped both the HD and case light connectors and reinserted them. When I finally got them to stay in the socket, to my surprise the lights now worked! Never saw a case that didn't have the ^ labeling the positive wire.
Now comes the question: should I reverse the speaker and switch (power and reset) connectors as well? They are working and I can't see why there would be a problem, but I thought I would ask here and double check.