Front Panel connector on Gigabyte boards

snadge · 9 Feb 2013 at 00:59

Hi

I'm in process of choosing new mobo and ram for a core-i5 3470 i have coming, it has to go into my old Acer Aspire SA-80 mATX case... I have recently put a foxconn 775 mobo in and the front panel pins were spot on for the front header block on the case - when i look at Asus and MSI boards they appear to have the correct block - but when I look a gigabyte boards they appear to have a long white block? Iam worried that the front panel block will not fit on a gigabyte board?! or that pins are in different order?

or is it TWO front panel connectors Iam looking at on the GB board?

arent these universal and standardized? so my Front panel block on the case should go into the Gigabyte (or other brand) motherboard?

thanks

Orcvader · 9 Feb 2013 at 01:05

Front panel pins aren't standardised as for as I know, they were different fomr me when I was using Asus, MSI and Gigabyte. They could be the same shape and same amount of pins but it's usually a different pin layout.

Most cases will have seperate 2-pin connectors to get around this, but OEM cases such as Acer will have an Acer-standardised block.

joshcowin · 9 Feb 2013 at 16:59

Well their all coloured coded so it shouldnt be too hard. And if you mean the audio connector its the same as any other and it fitted straight onto my z77 board

snadge · 9 Feb 2013 at 20:56

well my 'Acer-standardized' block went straight onto a Foxconn 45GM skt 775 motherboard?? surely if it was for ACER only it would not have worked?

will I have to buy a new tower then? are there any adapters that I can use? such as converting the block to seperate pins?

thanks

Orcvader · 10 Feb 2013 at 12:25

snadge said:
well my 'Acer-standardized' block went straight onto a Foxconn 45GM skt 775 motherboard?? surely if it was for ACER only it would not have worked?

will I have to buy a new tower then? are there any adapters that I can use? such as converting the block to seperate pins?

thanks

Could just be a chance that Foxconn manufactures some of the Acer motherboards.

I suppose if you search 2 pin header extension or something like that, then it should come up with something.

nightmare99 · 10 Feb 2013 at 12:38

or is it TWO front panel connectors Iam looking at on the GB board?

It is this, Gigabyte use the Intel standard front panel connector block you are talking about plus there is the 4 Pin speaker + 3 pin additional power led connectors beside it.

snadge · 10 Feb 2013 at 18:54

you know what - totally forgot but i had this problem in 2010 with an acer tower and gigabyte board...googling brought up an old post on TSG by me lol... I could cut the wires and trace them and pop them into their own single/double connectors but I dont know where I could get some>?