Hi All
This is my first post on the Overclockers forums despite having used this place as a rich source of solid information for quite a while now!
But I felt my problem had become so unique to the situation that it warranted the registration and this post, so please bear with me as I try to explain the nature of this 'chassis - motherboard incompatibility'...
I've been tasked with building a home server by a friend, who provided me with all the parts to 'put together' (and won't budge on them). On the surface of it it seemed simple enough, especially with the plethora of info on the net about home server building.
However, it soon dawned on me that the motherboard I'd been given was not a dedicated 'server type', but rather an AMD AM3+ board [Asus M5A88-V EVO] (along with compatible cpu & memory). This wouldn't normally post too much difficulty except that the chosen chassis was a rackmount case: Chenbro RM21400
The problem is that the front panel I/O connections have 'LAN 1 SP' and 'LAN 2 SP" cables (for front two LAN LED activity), which appear to have no place to connect on the motherboard's 'system panel connector' -nor anywhere else on the board.
I saw NathanE's excellent "Rackmount server build incl. Asus P6T7 mobo" post in these forums, which is a similar build - but gave no explanation about how he got around the problem of the LAN 1 & LAN 2 front panel LED activity. So this would be my question to NathanE:
How did you get around the problem of attaching your chenbro LAN 1 & LAN 2 front panel cables to your P6T7 mobo? The P6T7's system panel connector also doesn't carry such connections, so where if it all did you put them in order to have the front panel LED LAN activity function?
Admittedly, this is my first attempt at server building (only ever having constructed air & water cooled pcs before); I'm concerned that in the absence of dedicated connections there may be some warranty-voiding soldering involved!
[I checked with Asus: they have a pretty comprehensive list of all the chenbro chassis that their mobos are compatible with. The only single socket AMD CPU chenbro-compatible board listed is the M2N-LR, which is a far cry from the components already in my possession! (But according to that board's spec, it does indeed have '2 front lan leds' among its onboard I/O connectors..!)]
I greatly appreciate anyone here imparting their pearls of wisdom to help a relative noob get over this hurdle!
Thanks
This is my first post on the Overclockers forums despite having used this place as a rich source of solid information for quite a while now!
But I felt my problem had become so unique to the situation that it warranted the registration and this post, so please bear with me as I try to explain the nature of this 'chassis - motherboard incompatibility'...
I've been tasked with building a home server by a friend, who provided me with all the parts to 'put together' (and won't budge on them). On the surface of it it seemed simple enough, especially with the plethora of info on the net about home server building.
However, it soon dawned on me that the motherboard I'd been given was not a dedicated 'server type', but rather an AMD AM3+ board [Asus M5A88-V EVO] (along with compatible cpu & memory). This wouldn't normally post too much difficulty except that the chosen chassis was a rackmount case: Chenbro RM21400
The problem is that the front panel I/O connections have 'LAN 1 SP' and 'LAN 2 SP" cables (for front two LAN LED activity), which appear to have no place to connect on the motherboard's 'system panel connector' -nor anywhere else on the board.
I saw NathanE's excellent "Rackmount server build incl. Asus P6T7 mobo" post in these forums, which is a similar build - but gave no explanation about how he got around the problem of the LAN 1 & LAN 2 front panel LED activity. So this would be my question to NathanE:
How did you get around the problem of attaching your chenbro LAN 1 & LAN 2 front panel cables to your P6T7 mobo? The P6T7's system panel connector also doesn't carry such connections, so where if it all did you put them in order to have the front panel LED LAN activity function?
Admittedly, this is my first attempt at server building (only ever having constructed air & water cooled pcs before); I'm concerned that in the absence of dedicated connections there may be some warranty-voiding soldering involved!
[I checked with Asus: they have a pretty comprehensive list of all the chenbro chassis that their mobos are compatible with. The only single socket AMD CPU chenbro-compatible board listed is the M2N-LR, which is a far cry from the components already in my possession! (But according to that board's spec, it does indeed have '2 front lan leds' among its onboard I/O connectors..!)]
I greatly appreciate anyone here imparting their pearls of wisdom to help a relative noob get over this hurdle!
Thanks
