Comments on: Connect How To: Your Computer Connections http://www.connecthowto.com/20090213/connect-how-to-your-computer-connections/ Connect how to, Install how to, and Wire how to instructions. Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:07:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Randy http://www.connecthowto.com/20090213/connect-how-to-your-computer-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-1359 Randy Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:55:11 +0000 http://www.connecthowto.com/?p=31#comment-1359 Yes. The reset connection doesn't matter since it's a switch, either short or open. The rest are LED lights and the white wires are ground. If the grounds aren't marked on the motherboard itself or in the book that came with it, then just plug them in one way and see if they work. If they don't work, then just flip them around. It won't hurt anything if they get plugged in backwards. Since there are so many different types of motherboards with no standard, then it is virtually impossible to know how to plug them in right without looking at the book. Personally, I usually opt for the trial and error approach since it's quicker. Yes. The reset connection doesn’t matter since it’s a switch, either short or open. The rest are LED lights and the white wires are ground.

If the grounds aren’t marked on the motherboard itself or in the book that came with it, then just plug them in one way and see if they work. If they don’t work, then just flip them around. It won’t hurt anything if they get plugged in backwards.

Since there are so many different types of motherboards with no standard, then it is virtually impossible to know how to plug them in right without looking at the book. Personally, I usually opt for the trial and error approach since it’s quicker.

]]> By: Willy Ralston http://www.connecthowto.com/20090213/connect-how-to-your-computer-connections/comment-page-1/#comment-1312 Willy Ralston Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:45:07 +0000 http://www.connecthowto.com/?p=31#comment-1312 A year ago someone gave me a nice computer...Within 3 months the hard drive crashed. In my anger I pulled out all the ribbons, and the front face, and all its connections. This included the on-off switch, the reset button, and the front lights. On the bottom of the face were a headphone connection and two USB ports. I pulled all those wires out too. I think I have figured out how to replace all the ribbons...and the power cords. What I haven't figured out is if the white wires should go on the right of the jumpers or on the left. Can you help me? A year ago someone gave me a nice computer…Within 3 months the hard drive crashed. In my anger I pulled out all the ribbons, and the front face, and all its connections. This included the on-off switch, the reset button, and the front lights. On the bottom of the face were a headphone connection and two USB ports. I pulled all those wires out too. I think I have figured out how to replace all the ribbons…and the power cords. What I haven’t figured out is if the white wires should go on the right of the jumpers or on the left. Can you help me?

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