On 21 Feb 2005 at 6:52, Fiona Guest wrote:

> Very recently I picked up a secondhand motherboard and PIII CPU for my
> son thinking to upgrade his PII but I am having alot of trouble
> getting the front case connectors sorted out. After much searching I
> have managed to identify the motherboard - right down to the Gateway
> part#. I checked thru their support info and found this web page:
> http://support.gateway.com/s/MOTHERBD/INTEL/m00264/M0026422.shtml
> which shows exactly the configuration of the motherboard I have.
> Unfortunately, I have not found this much help - the case I am putting
> it into has standard PIII connections (4 pin speaker, 2 pin reset, HDD
> led and s-pwr and 3 pin pwr led) and I have no idea how these relate
> to the info I have been given. Any help would be gratefully recieved
> (especially by my son who has had no compter for over a week!)

  I don't see a speaker connection on that page.  About all you need the
case speaker for is POST diagnostics -- maybe there's a separate speaker
connector nearby.
  I don't know how your case connects the power LED to three prongs, but it
doesn't look like that will match up either.  You can usually tell that the
system is on if you can hear the fan(s) and drives, so that's also minor.

  The HDD LED connector goes on pins 1 and 3 -- i.e., along the length of
the header, rather than across it.  There are two ways it can go on, but it
will only light up if it is the right way around.  (The wrong way can't hurt
anything, so you can safely experiment to figure out which way works.)
  The Reset goes on the next two pins, 5 and 7.  It's a simple switch, so it
doesn't matter which way around it goes.  S-Power is also a simple switch,
and goes on 6 and 8, the adjoining pins on the row closest to the edge of
the board.

David Gillett

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