Couple of questions

Steoob

hey hows it goin, my brother gave me an old computer for me to have coz its better than the one i have now.. its kinda bare so i have buy some stuff for it but im confused about 3 things in it

the first being this:

its the sound cable running from the sound card to the cd drive, the black plug is the normal one but this has a white plug coming out of it.. where does it go?

second one is:

its one of the power leads for either the hard disks or the removable media disks, im not quite sure yet but its got an extra plug on the end, ive never seen it before, know what it is?

and the last is:

ive never seen these before in my life, they come straight from the power supply.. since ive never had to hook up a floppy drive myself im assuming thats what theyre for? or are they for the same thing at all? i dunno let me know anyway please and sorry for the bad quality...

Sven

mr_disc

1st pic : cant make it out really but it looks like that type plugs into some NICs ( for Remote power wake-up )

2nd : is power for floppy drive

3rd : is power for the main board

Steoob

thanks for the first 2 but i dunno about the last one coz the motherboard is already plugged in and theres nowhere for those plugs to go on the board..

mr_disc

some boards need it, others dont, just depends on the type ( of board )

Steoob

so i'll just leave it hangin i guess thanks man

mr_disc

Sound, just tuck it in out if the way .........

Orion

Pic 1 is for the CD audio to the sound card. There are two types of connections - you just use one or the other depending on what card you have. That white one is the older version and has fallen out of usage.

Pic 2 is the floppy drive power connection.

Pic 3 on the right is the SATA power connector. If your motherboard doesn't have SATA ports then it's just not used. No idea what the left one is for.

Anti

Macros42 wrote:

Pic 1 is for the CD audio to the sound card. There are two types of connections - you just use one or the other depending on what card you have. That white one is the older version and has fallen out of usage.

Pic 2 is the floppy drive power connection.

Pic 3 on the right is the SATA power connector. If your motherboard doesn't have SATA ports then it's just not used. No idea what the left one is for.

Now where did you see this so called SATA power converter ?

Maybe im blind

Webmonkey

The third one isn't a SATA power connecter. Its an extra power cable that goes into certain motherboards

Anti

its a 4pin atx yoke.

Steoob

cool and what about the one on the left in the 3rd pic? i can take a better pic of it if ye wanna take a closer look

Webmonkey

It's an Aux Connector, provides 5volts DC to the board i think. NOt neccessarly used on all boards. Probably just the new highend ones. Your PC seems old so i wouldn't say its needed. If slot not on the mainboard, no need to use it

Steoob

makes sense, thanks everyone problems solved