Wiring power button to motherboard header

Discussion in 'General Hardware' started by Ijen, Jul 10, 2009.

  1. Ijen

    Ijen Geek Trainee

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    Having just upgraded my computer, I had a bunch of old components knocking around and thought I'd put them together. It was all going well, right up until I spotted the connector on the cable for the power button on the case (power/reset/led) isn't compatible with the motherboard.

    So, the question is how to turn it on without the power button on the case?

    Are there any alternative ways to turn it on, or even 'hot wire' it somehow? Otherwise, I'll be skip-diving for a new old case :p

    The motherboard is an MSI Neo2 865Pe
    The case is from a ten year old Dell Dimension XPS T700r
     
  2. Anti-Trend

    Anti-Trend Nonconformist Geek

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    [ot]Hello. In the future, please use descriptive titles for threads. "On" doesn't exactly describe what you're trying to accomplish, so it's a bad title. :) I took the liberty of changing that for you. Thanks![/ot]

    On the matter of your issue, the solution is actually pretty simple. If you take off the black plastic on the 'power on/off' connector of the chassis header wiring, you'll be left with female copper connectors that can slide right onto the pins on your motherboard's header.
     

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