Case conectors

[murf]

I am bought a new motherboard, case, cpu, and memory for a new system. My case didn't come with any documentation on how to hook up the reset, harddrive, power led, etc. connectors. Does the little arrow with an s on it mean positive or negative?

[Crahl]

Basically, most cases don't come with documentation unless you buy the higher grade ones. It's not entirely necessary since it's pretty harmless even if you connect the wrong way around.

Pin orientations are pretty basic. Most of the times, White jumpers represent the positive pins of the connectors and the coloured jumpers represent the ground or negative points. I have come across casings that do it the other way around though, but try White as positive first. The PC speaker is clear cut, red is hot and black is ground.

Cheers

[beavis]

My case wiring had the little arrows on the connector these are positive which if you look in your motherboard manual it will show you the positive hookups.

[Axel]

Murf - the case didn't come with the documentation for that because it changes based on what motherboard you install. Look in the mother-board manual to see how to connect all of those jumpers. Also, depending on the mother-board, you may not connect all of the leads that your case came with.

Tell us what motherboard you have and, if you don't have a manual for it, we might be able to point you to the correct place.

The ID of the board is typically near the middle of the face of the board in bold white block letters. Also, the back of the board might have an FCC sticker with an ID on it which would help out a bunch.

Last ID source might be the serial number on the BIOS chip set.