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2-14 Front panel connectors
The front panel connector strip is located near the battery and the BIOS IC. It will allow
you to connect LEDs and Switches in your case to the motherboard. Please refer to the
following picture for the lay-out of the front panel connector strip:
Descriptions of each individual connector follow:
PW-LED
The Power LED connector allows you to connect a three pin LED from the case. Notice the
polarity, LEDs will only light up if the polarity is correct.
PW-ON
The Power ON connector is to be used with the push-button power switch in the case. This
push button should be a momentarily contact type switch (that is, it should not lock in the
ON state but flip back OFF as soon as you release it). All ATX cases come with such a
switch. The BIOS allows you to select the power down mode. Either power down
immediately on a button push, or with a 4 second delay.
Speaker
The speaker connector is for the internal case speaker. This speaker will enable the BIOS to
give spoken messages in case of boot up trouble. The BIOS beep codes also use this
speaker. For Games and Music this speaker will not be used, but rather the back panel
line-out connector.
Reset
The reset connector is for connection of the reset switch. This switch, when pressed, will
immediately reset the system (that is, no matter what you where doing, the system will
restart. This is very similar to powering to system off and then on again). Note that
Windows, Linux and other operating systems do not appreciate the use of the reset switch.
When you are working under windows, always use the shutdown feature under the start
button (Yes, very logical).
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