Pin configuration for front panel on n1996 motherboard

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Go to Page 14 - 2.7 Connecting Front Panel Cable

The motherboard is shown clocked 90 degrees to the right, from how it actually sits in the computer case.

Processor socket to the Top, Ram Memory slots to the Right, white long PCI slot to the bottom;
The Front Panel header is to the Top edge, and towards the right.

[The front of your computer is the Front Panel.
The area of contact pins on the motherboard, that the main wires from the Front Panel go to, is the Front Panel header ]

Situated in the computer case, the Front Panel header is along the top edge. It is parallel to the top edge, and is two rows of contact pins.

20 pins. 10 across the Top, 10 across the Bottom.
Pins across the Top row are numbered ODD.
Pins across the Bottom row are numbered EVEN.

Starting on the Right side on the Top row, and going towards the Left;
Pins 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, and 19

Starting on the Right side on the Bottom row, and going towards the Left;
Pins 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, and 20.

A) Pins 1 and 3 are N/C. Not Connected (White area)

B) Pins 7 and 9 are for the HarDDrive activity LED.
(Middle two pins in Orange area)

C) Pins 13, 15, 17, and 19 are for a Speaker. Internal speaker for the BIOS Beep Codes.
Pin 13 is for the Positive ( + ) wire
(Gray area)

D) Pins 2 and 4 are for a Reset switch, IF a Reset switch is used.
(Purple area)

E) Pins 12, 14, and 16 are for the Power On LED light.
Pins 12, 14, and 16 are used for a Power On LED light that has 3 wires. The LED has dual colors. (Green/Yellow?)

For a two wire Power On LED it is Pin 12, and Pin 14.
(Green area for all 3 pins)

F) Pins 18 and 20 are for the Power On switch.
(Pink or Red area)

Front USB headers are on Page 15.
Front Audio headers are on Page 16.

For additional questions please post in a Comment.

Regards,
joecoolvette

Hi Rajen samani!
Most mercury motherboards with a nine pin front panel connection use the following configuration.

You may want to double check to make sure that your motherboard follows this configuration. Just go to http://www.mercury-pc.com/downloads.php, enter your model number, and you'll be able to download the manual for your board. The jumper configuration should be in a section labeled "Front Panel Connection" or something similar.
Hope that Helps!

Connect the front panel leads to the motherboard connector marked "JFP1" using the following pins as indicated by the markings on the motherboard and the front panel leads: HDD LED on Pins 1 and 3; power LED on Pins 2 and 4; reset switch on Pins 5 and 7; and the power switch on Pins 6 and 8.

Good luck.

hello jknr09

my name is ausi

i can not find your motherboard on gigabyte web site. however the boards nowadays are standard as far as front panel header goes.

on gigabyte mother board you will see the hedae as two rows of pins like this.

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the bottom row first 4 pins are the speaker pins. the next single pin is void the next two are reset switch. the last two are hard disk lead.
the top row first two pins are message lead (usually not used). the next two pins are power switch exactly opposite the reset switch.

the power lead connection on gigabyte boards are a three pin header next to the front panel header.

hopefully this is helpful.
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Dear... Mr.A. Ganesh
From Chennai(India)


pin configurations are printed in the mother board.watch carefully .it may be just few inches away from the front panel connector.

Even u cant find it...


you dont worry about it.You just assemble the

Cpu ,SMPS

then switch on the main .

then short a moment( 1second ) at any two pins which is in the front panel connector ( using tester/sqrew driver);continiously cheak like this one by one pair of pin(Verticaly and Horizontaly).

when you short the corrrect pin,then system on.so you can find it like this.then connect the power button easily.

I am 5 years Experienced Engineer. Mother Board should not get any problem doing like this.
Thank you

If your motherboard supports ECC, and you can afford the much-higher cost of ECC RAM, then buying/using ECC is "best".

Note that "buffered" memory is much slower than "unbuffered" memory.

Front Panel Connector The front panel header is where the connectors of hard disk drive activity lights, case speaker, reset button, power on/off button, computer power on light, and key lock, are connected to make them function smoothly. In the past days, users always have difficulty connecting the front panel due to a lack of standard location on the motherboard. Today, AOpen integrated all these disorder but essential front panel connectors into one 20-pin connector for easy usage. Connecting the front panel would no longer be the headache of installing motherboard anymore. Below is a view of this user-friendly front panel connector of AOpen motherboard.


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Dear Big Timmo,

To connect the Speaker Pins u have to check left or right side of u r mother board where u r power wire, reset wire and Hard disk led wire connected to the mother board. it has 12 or 13 male pins. There u will find in writen speaker in the motherboard. I hope now u can connect u r speaker pins..


Regards,
Bittu_8

The only way to to fix this if your headers on your wires aren't labeled is to trace them back from the switch it self. Usually they are white and red. The orientation on the motherboard pins doesn't matter since it's only a switch. Make sure you are putting the plug onto the power switch jumpers, and not the power led, reset, etc..

The manual you need will be on the board manufacturers web page, howevr I will bet you have the case power switch and perhaps the reset switch on the wrong pins on the mother board. To check this, remove the switch leads from the mother board, then use a small screw driver and bridge the pins on the mother board a pair at a time. All of these leads plug on to the board in a line and not across the two lines of pins. when you get the mother board to fire up by this method geet a torch and look closely alongside the pins you will see the letters PWR SW or RS SW. It does not matter what polarity these two sets of leads are plugged onto both will work. The LED lights on the case front will only work if the polarity is correct but it will not do any harm if they are backwords. On the board you should se two sets of pins marked HDD and PWR these are the led light pins you will know you have them right when the usual red and green lights are working at the front of your tower. Regards mistyman