Connecting Case Wires to MOBO

Anderswelt · 29 Mar 2020 at 19:05

Hi,
My Kolink Aviator M Micro-ATX Gaming Case just arrived today, and I have everything set up bar the wires that came with the case, including that of the two fans. I have no idea where to place these cables on the motherboard. I have the B450M Pro4. Any help greatly received!

Best regards,
AW

Mcnumpty2323 · 29 Mar 2020 at 19:07

Usually the connectors for power, reset, hdd activity will be down near bottom right hand corner of motherboard

Minibiker · 29 Mar 2020 at 19:08

Is that also the cables for HDD LED and Power LED etc?

Anderswelt · 29 Mar 2020 at 19:17

There is a cable that branches into three, they are colour coded: Red (H.D.DLED+-), Blue (RESETSW), Brown (POWERSW). I'm not sure where these go.

The fan has plug with both male and female connectors, one each side. This is confusing to me. I have two fans.

There's another plug that has two plugs at the end. One is labelled POWER, the other is FAN.

There are two very small plugs, black, PowerLED+ and PowerLED-.

Mcnumpty2323 · 29 Mar 2020 at 19:21

Hdd, power, reset, power led all go in same area
Usually bottom right of motherboard
The others sound like something to do with fan leds possibly

Anderswelt · 29 Mar 2020 at 19:24

Okay, I have two spots on the bottom right: SPK_PLED1, PANEL1

Mcnumpty2323 · 29 Mar 2020 at 19:28

Anderswelt said:
Okay, I have two spots on the bottom right: SPK_PLED1, PANEL1

The others should be near/next to those
Your motherboard manual will tell you exactly
And which pins are + or - if polarity is required

Anderswelt · 29 Mar 2020 at 19:35

Okay, I think I have this a little better.

PANEL1
Here we have the configuration thus in the manual (each being one pin):

PLED+, PLED-, PWRBUTTON, GND
HDLED+, HDLED-, GND, RESET#, GND

The coloured plugs each have two connections. I fitted the HDLED, according to polarity, but what about the reset switch which is flanked by GND? Which I take as meaning ground. Likewise the power switch plug?

b00merang69 · 29 Mar 2020 at 19:44

Switch's so PWR and RESET does not matter which way round it goes it will work.

Mcnumpty2323 · 29 Mar 2020 at 19:47

Some, like power switch
Are just momentary switches
Polarity does not matter on those
They simply complete a circuit momentarily to power up the computer

Anderswelt · 29 Mar 2020 at 20:07

These are my fan plugs

https://ibb.co/vkY4GgQ

https://ibb.co/3vthD4B

Anderswelt · 29 Mar 2020 at 20:11

Ive done the wires for PANEL1 and SPK_PLED1.

Just the fans I think. And that's it.

Minibiker · 29 Mar 2020 at 20:28

Anderswelt said:
Ive done the wires for PANEL1 and SPK_PLED1.

Just the fans I think. And that's it.

Your fans have 2 different types of connectors, The molex connector will run from the PSU where as the 3 pin connector will connect to the motherboard and can be controlled from there... The motherboard should have some headers labelled SYS_FAN or CHA_FAN

Anderswelt · 29 Mar 2020 at 20:35

I put the 3 pin connectors in. Just wondered what the heck the other one was for!

Minibiker · 29 Mar 2020 at 20:36

Anderswelt said:
I put the 3 pin connectors in. Just wondered what the heck the other one was for!

Just another way to connect it bud

Anderswelt · 29 Mar 2020 at 20:40

So, what remains is this...

https://ibb.co/4J8WH7n

Mcnumpty2323 · 29 Mar 2020 at 20:47

Anderswelt said:
So, what remains is this...

https://ibb.co/4J8WH7n

Some sort of power pass through?
Any wires coming off it?

Anderswelt · 29 Mar 2020 at 23:58

Mcnumpty2323 said:
Some sort of power pass through?
Any wires coming off it?

None. It's just those two that branch off from one wire. I can't see what they could possibly connect to.

b00merang69 · 30 Mar 2020 at 00:19

Looks half the same (the Molex part) to power the fan controller on my NZXT Phantom 630 case.

Anderswelt · 30 Mar 2020 at 13:11

I really regret getting this case. I have everything connected up as best as I can, and I'll just have to wait to sort out the PSU mains plug, as they sent me an American connection. Still no clarity on that. As and aside, I can't get the side panel back on the case because of the connections for the HDDs. Really not a great design in my opinion.