pc case connectors

[chorro]

I had bought a new case from a local computer store and hooked up my motherboard from a previous case. I was wondering if anyone knew the polarity of the wires that connect to the motherboard. The wires for the connectors are sometimes red/white or green/white and I wanted to know which one is for the ground and which one is for the positive. My motherboard manual only tells of where each plug must go.

I experienced the computer restarting for no reason and no, the computer operates at a sufficient temperature. The new case came with 2 12volt case fans plus the one for the power supply. I also have one of those pci/isa slot fans, so I know it's not overheating. All the IDE and power cables are securely fastened.

My motherboard is a Tyan S2060 with the latest bios release. The pc case is a generic one, V-Tek brand and I couldn't find anything online.

[spaceman_333]

Chorro,

The pumper settings here are really easy to read.

http://www.tyan.com/support/html/faq_product.html


spaceman

[Murf]

Normally WHITE is ground, and sometimes doesn't make a difference as both wires are hot...

The PC PWR, reverse it....

[chorro]

the power led plug is in a 3 prong plug, yet there are only 2 wires going in and they're separated by an empty prong. How do I go about placing one of the wires in the other hole?? I've tried using an exacto knife to a thumbtac to slide out the metal from the plastic port, but can't seem to get it out. Is there another way I'm overlooking??

[spaceman_333]

Chorro,

You don't need to do that!!

J33 is a 3 pin ACPI plug. You need a 2 pin so use J15 instead.


spaceman

[chorro]

My question was how do I go about taking out one of the wires from the 3 prong plug into making it fit into the J15 2 pin section?? If I connect it, only one of the wires will be connecting. I've tried using an exacto knife to a thumbtac to try to push out that wire so that the 2 wires will be right next to each other instead of being separated by an empty hole on a 3 prong plug.

[crash_cyberdrive]

Is not by the metal, Is by a plastic clip usin that same blade carefully lift the clip at the same time pulling the cable.

[spaceman_333]

Use the 3 pin, because Pins 8 and 10 are both + and 12 is -

[chorro]

Thanx for all your help. I basically removed part of the top part of the 3 prong plug for the power LED and took out the one wire and moved it into the middle outlet, so now the pc case correctly shows a green led when turned on.

It turns out that what was making the computer restart and giving me the dreaded blue screen memory dump error message was that one of my ram chips went bad. After removing it, it's now fine. It's funny, but never have I ever had problems using generic ram. My other 2 ram sticks are Kingston and PNY 128mb and the 64mb stick was generic.

[spaceman_333]

Chorro,

Glad it's fixed!! Thanks for telling us.


spaceman

[chorro]

goes to show you that getting generic ram doesn't pay off in the long run!! Name brand memory doesn't give out easily, plus some name brands offer lifetime warranties.