Help! Wires.
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thread starter Zomguh Jun 29 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT
Can anyone help me? I'm building a desktop and i've inserted everything into the case. Now i have to connect those wires, but i have no idea how to. If anyone can link me to a website, or make me a guide, it will be appreciated.
hairamoose 06/29/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT
their in the mother board instruction booklet that came with ur mother board anr your other components
Zomguh 06/29/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT
There isn't any picture guides, and i think they will help alot.
eLeeTHaX Jun 30 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT
Well, on a wire from the PSU, there is a connector with 20 or 24 pins. Plug that into the slot on the motherboard that has 20 or 24 pins. link It should look like that, the one in the pic is a 20 pin one. link <- Would be the connector on the motherboard that you connect it to. Again, it may have 24 pins instead of 20. On another wire from the PSU, there is a connector with 4 or 8 pins. If it has 8 pins, make sure that it's split in the middle, so it looks like a 4+4 pins. Plug that into the corresponding slot on the motherboard. link <- Would be a 8 pin connector. link <- Would be a 4 pin connector. link <- Would be the connector on the motherboard. Yours may be 8 pins. On your hard drive, there are two connectors that look like "L"s, one bigger than the other. Get your sata cable, match it, and plug it into the small connector. There is another connector that matches the connector on the sata cable on the motherboard. Plug it in there. For the bigger connector, there is a wire on your PSU that matches it, plug it in there. link <- Sata cable. link <- A motherboard. The sata connector is near the bottom right, slightly above the bottom right corner. I don't know if your DVD/CD drive is IDE or sata, if it's sata, connect it like how you connect your hard drive. If it's IDE, find your IDE cable. It looks like -> link Plug the blue end into your motherboard. It's 39 pins. There is one pin on your motherboard that's missing, on one on your cable that's missing. Match those pins, and plug it in. Do the same thing on your other end of the cable, plug it into your DVD/CD drive. There also is 4 pins on the back of your DVD/CD drive, thats for power. There's a wire from your PSU that matches it. Plug it in. link <- The 4 pin connector from your PSU. If you have a graphics card, install it on your motherboard, and if it has some 6 or 8 pin connectors somewhere on it, plug in the appropriate cables from the PSU in. It should say something like "PCI-E" or "+12V" on the wire from the PSU. link <- Power connector from the PSU. link <- Where you plug the wire from the PSU in. Remember, not all graphics cards have a power connector. If you have any fans, plug them in to the matching power wire on the PSU. link <- The 4 pin connector that they fit in. If your heatsink has a fan on it, plug it in to either the same connector as the other fans, if it fits, or plug it into the "CPU Fan" connector on the motherboard. It should be labeled, and somewhere on there. Now, for your front panel connectors, the wires coming from the front, find your motherboard manual, and plug them into the correct places on the motherboard. I can't help you there, since I don't know what case and motherboard you have. The connectors and directions are specific to the case and motherboard. The white wires from the case mean negative. EDIT:: I hope that you know how to plug your mouse, screen, etc. in. If not, just ask. BTW, those pics are all googled. PM me if you have any questions.
MrPineapple Jun 30 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT
EDIT: post before me was less lazy than I. Read that. Almost all motherboard manuals have direct descriptions as to which wires connect where, not to mention the PSU manual and chassis manual do the same for all their connectors. If you can't handle it because their aren't enough pictures... wow. Start with the PSU 24-pin connector that fits on the motherboard, it's the most obvious. Then the 4-pin PCI-e connector for whatever GPU you have in the PCI-e slot. Then you have 4-pin peripheral connectors which power all the fans, etc, and a bunch of SATA connectors to power your drives. It's nearly impossible to confuse any of them, if it fits, chances are it's right. You then have to connect your drives to your motherboard. IDE drives usually connect via a large ribbon of wires and go into the pronged IDE connection usually on the exterior and rightmost side of the motherboard , SATA connect to ports which are usually in the bottom right of the motherboard. (usually on all motherboards these are clearly labelled) Then you have to connect all the additional things your case may include, like extra USB ports, LED lights and power buttons, audio jacks, etc. Look in the manuals to find the correct layout for these. Again, they should be labeled on the motherboard. Also, don't forget to plug the heatsink into the motherboard, and set the jumpers on drives for primary/slave configurations. It's really not all that complicated, I've yet to have a build where I miss-wired or forgot to wire something.
Zomguh 06/30/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT
Thanks for the help guyss :D I'll try and do it now.
Chickenz 06/30/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT
The hardest connectors for probably everybody is the power button, power/hd LED, etc. Although the motherboard manual tells you, you often have to experiment whether + and - sides are lined up correctly. My case didnt come with color coded wires >.>
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