Having problems hooking up my motherboard to my case.

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I bought an Intel Pentium 4 D845GECL motherboard on ebay from HongKong a while back, it came today and I am having one hell of a time trying to find the place where I'm supposed to hook it up to my power switch on my case. How would I find it? I've been looking around for a long time now and haven't been able to find any sort of documentation on where I'm supposed to find such a thing on the motherboard.

Which side of the wire connectors are positive and which one is negative?

Not sure if it helps a whole lot but this is what it looks like:

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Derp wrong board...
Can a mod move this?

[sheath]

Well, without seeing the board, ATX for factor is always the same. Did you mean the power switch on the front of the case, or the ATX power cable? If you meant the switch, it should hook up in the same place as the PC speaker, HDD light, Power LED and sometimes a couple of other smaller black connectors. Some ATX motherboards want you to put them all with the print on the actual female side connector up, others want you to put the top row one way and the bottom row another. I usually have to trial and error it by figuring out which way the Power switch goes first.

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Oh, you meant wrong board as in wrong forum. Yeah I don't see the usual connectors for any of the case cables on that board. The bottom left most black male connector is the only odd thing, the other nearby male black connections are USB I think. This looks like a nasty proprietary board. Does it have a model number?

[nonameo]

He means he's looking for the block of jumpers that you plug the power switch, reset switch, speaker, HDD LED, etc into.


Well, I think anyway. Intel doesn't have that board on their site so... I think it might be OEM or something like that.

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The model number I got was D845GECL

It has an 845GE chipset. That's about all I can say about it. The provided this for me when I asked him how to hook it up:

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The problem is that I'm not sure which side of the connectors coming from the buttons on my case are positive or negative. I also can't get the PC to power on at all. Of course, there's no CPU hooked up. Should that matter? I just want to see if it's capable of powering on.

[sheath]

That's odd, it looks just like a USB connector to me. On non-proprietary boards those connectors are at least two pins longer. Anyway, I would start by plugging the Power Switch and Reset switch in with the labels pointing toward the board, or up in that picture.

I don't think the power will come on without a CPU. I would have to check the power on self test beep codes to confirm that, but I really don't think anything will happen without at least the Motherboard, CPU and RAM installed, sometimes you can get away without the RAM just to test whether the motherboard is busted.

[nonameo]

The model number I got was D845GECL

It has an 845GE chipset. That's about all I can say about it. The provided this for me when I asked him how to hook it up:

11isa.jpg

The problem is that I'm not sure which side of the connectors coming from the buttons on my case are positive or negative. I also can't get the PC to power on at all. Of course, there's no CPU hooked up. Should that matter? I just want to see if it's capable of powering on.

+ or - shouldn't matter, the switch is just temporarily making the connection between the two leads whichever way you put it
I've even used a screwdriver to jump them before...(not recommended). The LEDs are just superficial, don't worry about those. It should power on without them hooked up.

As for having the CPU in, I can't be 100% sure... I may have tried to power on a motherboard with no cpu in it at one time, but its been so long I can't remember. However, we both know that it SHOULD turn on with the CPU in so... if you want to be sure you know what to do.

[sheath]

That's right, it's the HDD LED that I always have to figure out which way it goes. It doesn't matter but when I get it wrong I don't see the HDD access light.

[nonameo]

well... aren't you just trying to get it to boot, or did you already get that working? Otherwise, the black wire is usually negative. Try it one way and if it doesn't work, flip it around. It's just an LED, it won't hurt anything for it to be in backwards. It just won't light up.

[gamevet]

That's odd, it looks just like a USB connector to me. On non-proprietary boards those connectors are at least two pins longer. Anyway, I would start by plugging the Power Switch and Reset switch in with the labels pointing toward the board, or up in that picture.

On my LGA 775 motherboard, pin 9 has no connection and pin 10 is blank. Pins 6 and 8 are the power switch (polarity doesn't matter) and the reset is pins 5 and 7 (polarity doesn't matter either).

I don't think the power will come on without a CPU. I would have to check the power on self test beep codes to confirm that, but I really don't think anything will happen without at least the Motherboard, CPU and RAM installed, sometimes you can get away without the RAM just to test whether the motherboard is busted.

It won't make it to the bios screen, but it will make beeping sounds.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/28...er-motherboard

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It will only make beeping sounds if i can find where the speaker is supposed to go right? I can't find where I'm supposed to plug that into. I also can't hear fans or anything else. I'm going to my local PC shop tomorrow to see if they can help me ( I know a couple of the guys there), if not then I'm going to wait until I have the CPU in there. Should be at my PObox in Washington soon.

[nonameo]

It looks like there's already a speaker built into the board.It's at the bottom of the ISA slot.

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That plastic black thing? Oh dear, I'm not getting any beeping noises when I try to turn it on...

[TmEE]

no CPU means no beeping will come, it is the CPU that does the beeping control in majority of boards.

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Alright, I've got everything hooked up. I haven't been able to get the OS installed yet.

All of a sudden the picture coming from the graphics card has become garbled. All I can see is 0s, and glitched blocks. What's happening? The onboard graphics aren't working either! What do I do? Is the whole thing screwed?