Question About Installing A Motherboard.

[Davaris]

I have a question for the hardware gurus. I have a Cooler Master CM 690 case and I have hooked everything up, except for the front panel's HDD lights and the buttons. The problem I am having is I don't know which are the earth wires, because the manual doesn't mention colours. All of the pairs of wires with earths on them come in different colours from red, blue, yellow etc, but the commonality they all have is a white wire to go with a coloured one. So at this point I'm thinking the earth wire is the white wire. Am I right? What if I am wrong? Will I fry my lights and buttons if the wires are in the wrong slots, or will they just fail to work?

 

BTW

I just noticed the Hardware Discussion forum was missing, when I needed to ask a question about my PC, so I hope it comes back.

[Scott Richmond]

The lights or buttons won't fry, so slot away. Worst that can happen is that it won't work or the lights will be on when they're meant to be off, etc.

[carlb]

the white wire for each color is the ground wire

and as DJDD said you not kill

[Flexman]

And dont do what I did, plug a USB cable into the Firewire header

 

"Hey this mouse is broken, I'll try this one...hmmm, this mouse is broken too, what about this one....hey, all these mice are broken...what are the odds of .... uh oh." (different voltages, stupid m/b had same pin layout for each).

[carlb]

or get the usb voltage and ground mixed up lol

if you do you watch the board glow then burn out

 

seen a few boards have that done lol

[Porsche]

Get the MoBo's model and look up the correct layout online. Most manufacturers will have a PDF file at least. And like everyone else said, doesn't hurt your computer if you guess wrong.

[Davaris]

Thanks for your help everyone. I was a bit worried that I had fried it for a while, because the bios didn't kick over on the first few starts - I didn't bother buying a CD burner, so I had to put the install disk on a USB stick and plug it in before it would go. Anyhow its all working now and I'll be installing Leadwerks later tonight when I can hook it up to the net.

[Scott Richmond]

Thanks for your help everyone. I was a bit worried that I had fried it for a while, because the bios didn't kick over on the first few starts - I didn't bother buying a CD burner, so I had to put the install disk on a USB stick and plug it in before it would go. Anyhow its all working now and I'll be installing Leadwerks later tonight when I can hook it up to the net.

 

...wait...what? You don't have a CD/DVD reader in any shape or form?

[Canardia]

You don't really need a CD/DVD drive anymore. A BluRay and Floppy disk drive is enough

[carlb]

lol most new motherboard do not have floppy and the last driver was made over 5 years ago

 

the truth is you can install win7 from a 8gb usb stick

and there other way to install with out using a optical.

 

anyway please you go it working Davaris, what motherboard did you get

[Canardia]

Well, an external USB Floppy is fine. You still need Floppy disks when you want to play some old Amiga games, or read some old PC floppies, but also some servers with Windows 2003 need additional drivers from USB floppy disk (unless you want to make a custom setup CD).

[Davaris]

...wait...what? You don't have a CD/DVD reader in any shape or form?

 

 

Not on the new PC. I have a couple of old PCs with CD burners and floppy drives, so I just created an image on the 8 GB USB. Hopefully USB will improve enough one day, to replace optical technology, because I prefer USB.

 

>what motherboard did you get

 

I got the cheapest machine money could buy. Once I've settled in with all this, I might try my hand at over clocking it.

 

ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO

Phenom II X3 720

9800GTX+

[Scott Richmond]

I'm all for the throwing away of CD burners. But DVD drives? How can you exist without one? All games and applications come on them. A top of the line DVD/CD combo burner costs like $90AUD tops. Its like the most bang-for-buck component in a new PC hah.

[Davaris]

I'm all for the throwing away of CD burners. But DVD drives? How can you exist without one? All games and applications come on them. A top of the line DVD/CD combo burner costs like $90AUD tops. Its like the most bang-for-buck component in a new PC hah.

 

The thing about games, is when you're playing them you aren't making them. So there'll be no games on this machine, until I make at least one on it.

[Scott Richmond]

The thing about games, is when you're playing them you aren't making them. So there'll be no games on this machine, until I make at least one on it.

 

Its a fair enough point I guess. I like to call playing games 'research' though haha.