Panel connectors

[Pyrx]

Just picked up a new matx motherboard, just wondering if I was to buy a case would it come with all the panel connectors for that board? 

Edited March 22, 2020 by Pyrx

[Grabhanem]

4 minutes ago, Pyrx said:

Just picked up a new matx motherboard, just wondering if I was to buy a case would it come with all the panel connectors for that board? 

You'd have to look around for a schematic of the F_PANEL header, but most cases should have individual connectors so having the pins in the right order shouldn't be a problem.

I think Lenovo uses an extra row of non-functional pins on their USB headers, but the header is otherwise the same. I have a USB expander from an old Lenovo desktop that I can check.

 

The one thing to note is that this board has no USB 3.0-- you'd have to either get a USB3-USB2 header adapter, a dedicated USB3 card, or just be OK with any USB3 ports not working if you get a case that uses USB3.

[Pyrx]

Yeah I noticed it doesn’t have usb3 but that doesn’t bother me too much just want to get the other parts right first, it also has a long row of pins labelled lpt? Unsure if they are needed or not. Thanks 

[cobalt77]

LTP = Line Terminal Port = parallel port header

[Guest]

11 minutes ago, Grabhanem said:

 

The one thing to note is that this board has no USB 3.0-- you'd have to either get a USB3-USB2 header adapter, a dedicated USB3 card, or just be OK with any USB3 ports not working if you get a case that uses USB3.

That board lacks USB 3.0 because it pre-dates USB 3.0

20 minutes ago, Pyrx said:

Just picked up a new matx motherboard, just wondering if I was to buy a case would it come with all the panel connectors for that board? 

 

I hope you realize how antique that board is (8 or 9 years) and didn't pay too much for it (<$20 with the I/O shield) if you plan to build a "retro build".  I hope you can find the Sandy Bridge CPU and DDR3 RAM  you need to use that thing.  

 

Anyway..

 

Pin 1&2 is HDD

Pin 6&8 is PWR LED

Pin 10&12 is PWR SWITCH

I don't believe the ThinkCenter M92 had a reset button.

 

99% of the time, "LPT" means printer port.  See.. back in the day, printers actually had their own port and didn't use the USB port (probably because USB 2.0 was too slow).

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, cobalt77 said:

LTP = Line Terminal Port = parallel port header

Dyslexia. 

 

It's "LPT".  Line Print Terminal. 

 

[cobalt77]

8 minutes ago, jonnyGURU said:

Dyslexia. 

 

It's "LPT".  Line Print Terminal. 

 

Yes it is Line Print Terminal, and yes I am dyslexic. Sorry about that.