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Hero
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 Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:17 pm Post subject: colored wires are just for show right? |
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| Ok, got all my pc parts, put it together, it wont turn on. I sit here shaking my head unable to figure it out. Turns out the wires from the case for the power button, and the colors on the mobo do not match up. The orange cable on the case is for power, but the plug color is red on the mobo. The booklet for the mobo was zero help. Is color coded wires and a booklet just for show, or what?
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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A long time ago, there was a standard with the wiring color.
Red for HDD, Green for Power LED as the HDD led is always red and the Power light is always green.
These days some cased comes with a purple color cable while the color code on the board itself doesn't have any of it.
Don't worry about the color code too much as it's not important, just look at the label on the header as it will tell you what they are and plug that to the correct pins labeled in your mobo reference manual.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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| kls85 wrote: | A long time ago, there was a standard with the wiring color.
Red for HDD, Green for Power LED as the HDD led is always red and the Power light is always green.
These days some cased comes with a purple color cable while the color code on the board itself doesn't have any of it.
Don't worry about the color code too much as it's not important, just look at the label on the header as it will tell you what they are and plug that to the correct pins labeled in your mobo reference manual. |
not worried, it just fucked me up. I thought I had 2 dead mobos.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Hero wrote: | | kls85 wrote: | A long time ago, there was a standard with the wiring color.
Red for HDD, Green for Power LED as the HDD led is always red and the Power light is always green.
These days some cased comes with a purple color cable while the color code on the board itself doesn't have any of it.
Don't worry about the color code too much as it's not important, just look at the label on the header as it will tell you what they are and plug that to the correct pins labeled in your mobo reference manual. |
not worried, it just fucked me up. I thought I had 2 dead mobos. |
Look at your manual and the label on your headers.
Colors on the board is not important since my board has no colors all.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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Just check all your connections, I though I had the power button wired wrong and tried multiple times to fix it, when It turned out I had some USB cords that ran to the top of my case plugged in backwards.
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