Hi and welcome back to ThisBytesForYou, so you might be building a brand new computer or
installing a brand new motherboard maybe even upgrading your case but you're stuck on one part.
How do you connect the front panel headers? How do you connect the power, the reset, usb, audio,
all that good stuff where does it go connected and exactly how do you do that? Don't worry my
friends, in this video I'm going to show you how to do all that so let's get started. Alright so
the first one we're going to worry about is the power switch, this big bad boy right over here.
Typically all the motherboards have silk screening on them that'll tell you what they are but
sometimes our eyes aren't good enough for that, so you definitely want to look for your motherboard
manual that you'll find on Asus, EVGA, MSI, Gigabyte whoever makes your motherboard, just
look on their website for the motherboard manual or maybe it actually came with a physical copy but
after you find that then we can work on this right over here or again you can just use your
eyes if you have good eyesight. Power Switch that is going to go right over here, see where it says
PWR, so we'll go ahead and connect that here. Now with all power switches the way we're going to
know it works obviously is if you know to turn the computer on you can see on the top of my screen
here the computer is on but if you hold the power switch that'll go ahead and turn off the computer.
So you can see power switch works and then we can turn it back on there as
well. But now that we have the computer off I want to go ahead and connect the HDD LED.
Sometimes it's called the Activity LED, now if we look on the motherboard here,
we'll notice it says HDD LED but it also shows a minus and a plus. So if we look at
the connector itself we'll see right over here a minus and a plus and then on the board
we'll see that same minus and plus so we want to match up those minus and plus together. Okay now
whereas the power led faced up on the motherboard the HDD LED would face down on the motherboard
it's going to be different on every case and every motherboard. So now we'll go ahead turn around
and then we'll see the red light for the activity light for the m.2 SSD, you see it blinking there
now this would also blink for the Power LED but I wanted you to see the activity LED as well.
Okay now if that wasn't bad enough, now we have the power LED. The power LED much like the activity LED
has that plus and minus, but on this one it's split in two. Now some
power LEDs are actually four combined into one connection but still, you'd be able to match up
those connections onto your motherboard. Now again, like we did for the activity LED we'll find the
plus and minus, so let's go ahead and find the power LED. Okay so we see the power LED here now
I've gone ahead and removed the other ones just to make it a little bit easier for you to see.
And then as soon as we're done connecting it, I'll put them all right back. Okay so power LED minus
is on the right and plus is on the left. Now for that one, it doesn't matter if you have it
facing up or facing down because they're separate you can just plug it in however
you like as long as minus goes on minus and plus goes on plus. Okay so now here we can
see the blue light for the power switch, you're going to see it alternating red every so often.
Remember that's the HDD or the activity light as well so as there's activity on the drive
that'll light up red and again it'll be different per case. Okay then there's the reset switch now
the reset switch isn't as picky as the power LED and the activity LED, this one you can have the
text facing up, facing down, it doesn't really matter and we'll just go ahead and plug it in
right over here. Okay now I've disconnected the power switch, power LED and the power
light the activity light so that you could see the reset. So reset just now that it's connected
and that's it it's resetting so let me go ahead reconnect everything again.
All right now that we have the power and reset buttons connected
as well as the power LED and the activity led light
all connected, now we're going to focus on the USB 2.0, USB 3.0 and HD Audio as you can see right now,
USB, there is no activity
or USB 3.0, so let's go ahead and connect the USB 2.0 header first. We'll grab this cable, notice
there is a pin blocked right over here that's going to go ahead and match with one of these two
USB 2.0 headers just, like you were, had that pin blocked off we're gonna go ahead and drop it right
in here just make sure it's firm all the way in. So now if we wanted to, we'll grab that USB 2.0 device
and you see, you heard the audio from the speaker and then we can see the mouse moving right over
here all right so let's move on to USB 3. So just like USB 2, we plug in something right over here
we don't hear the audio, it's not power. So just disconnecting that, here is the USB 3.0 connection
okay we're going to plug it in right over here into the motherboard. You'll notice there is
a little bend right over here. Okay that is going to fit right into the notch right
over here on the motherboard, so we'll go ahead slide it in ever so carefully.
Okay those pins bend very easily so just be very careful when you plug them in.
Okay and now we'll go ahead and plug in.
All right so same way, plugged in you heard the audio and now we can see the mouse moving. All
right so cool we have that working, and I'll just leave that connected as well. So the other one
is the HD audio, now HD audio much like USB 2 has that one block pin but it's not on the end
it's kind of the fourth pin over here or maybe the second pin this way so we're going to go ahead and
match that pin up right up here AAFP or it could be different on your board like we did for the USB
2.0 connection will match that blocked off pin right over here plug that in here. Now you heard
that before on the speaker but now with a pair of headphones, we'll connect that right over here.
Okay so now with that connected here we'll go ahead and open up edge,
and we'll go to youtube.com. It's a brand new install, so then here ThisBytesForYou
and then we'll click right over here
So right now the audio is coming from the monitor
Now if i click here, and right over here "Speakers 2 Realtech Audio"
It's coming from right over here, I'm going to move the microphone right here.
So you can hear that. And the same way if we wanted to switch back, Choosing the monitor.
Those are the most common connections right now, there are a few i just don't
have anymore like Firewire, eSATA, Parallel Port, Serial
and I forget what other ones. Now there's also USB-C, unfortunately I don't have one for this particular
case, but literally there's only one way to connect that so just plug it in and you're good to go.
Now if there's anything I've missed or something else maybe you have questions
on. (Static) Now one very important connection that I did forget about and it is incredibly important but
less and less motherboards are bringing them is the PC Speaker connection. Some motherboards
have it already built in some don't and they're kind of being phased out because
people don't want to hear the beep you know when the computer is starting up.
But that little beep sound is going to help you a lot for diagnosing issues, so let me show you
how to connect this one in case your motherboard brings it or you buy one online because you want
to diagnose something. All right so the PC Speaker is a little bit hidden here on the board you can
see it's silk screened right here, Speaker and then right over here you can see the four pins.
Those four pins are right over here. And then we'll just go ahead and connect that right here.
So the two times you're going to hear this is when you reboot you're gonna hear beep a single beep or
if there's some sort of error Bee, Beep-Beep-Beep-Beep or Bee, Beep-Beep. Every single beep has a meaning as to what it could
be. In my last video I showed you where that was I'll go ahead and link it up above in
case you're interested, but for now I'm just going to show you what it sounds like when you reboot.
That simple little beep. Please do leave a comment down below I answer all of my comments
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showing you how to connect those pesky front panel header connections. Iggy out, see you guys.