Complete dummy in need of help

Mr_Meanie

Loads of photos here:-

http://www.buildeasypc.com/hw/howto/instmb.htm

and here :-

http://tomshardware.co.uk/2002/09/04/building_your_own_pc/page4.html

Just go through and pick them out as you need them, most motherboards have very similar connections.

One word of warning it is possible to fit the power lead to the floppy drive upsidedown which will burn out the power supply, floppy drive and maybe the motherboard.
If in doubt DON'T connect it, the PC should work without it being connected.

maka_2

ok so far i have installed most things ( i hope the right places.) but i have a load of small wires that are coming from the on/off switch on the front and the usb connection on the front.

Mr_Meanie

If you look at them very closely some will have names on such as LED (power led on case), HDD (hard disk accessing led), SW (on/off button) over in one corner of the board there is a bank of pins with matching names in very very small lettering on the board, it’s best to have diagram to work to, so try and find the motherboard type and download the hand book.

Toxteth_OGrady

You can download your mobo manual from Gigabyte here.

The wiring info you need is on p.20 - 28.

:cool:

TOG

maka_2

I will thak you all here to start and when the icon returns i will thank you all the correct way

thanks again