Connecting Cables; Connecting Data Cables; Connecting Power Cables; Connecting The Control Panel - American Megatrends StorTrends 1100-P User Manual

Connecting Cables

Now that the motherboard is installed, the next step is to connect the cables to the board.
These include the data (ribbon) cables for the peripherals and control panel and the power
cables.

Connecting Data Cables

The ribbon cables used to transfer data from the peripheral devices have been carefully
routed to prevent them from blocking the flow of cooling air that moves through the
system from front to back. If you need to disconnect any of these cables, you should take
care to keep them routed as they were originally after reconnecting them (make sure the
red wires connect to the pin 1 locations). The following data cables (with their locations
noted) should be connected. (See the motherboard layout for connector locations.)
•
IDE Device cable (J5)
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Serial ATA Device cables (JS1, JS2, JS3 and JS4)
•
Serial ATA active LED cable (JS9)
•
Control Panel cable (JF1)

Connecting Power Cables

The StorTrends 1100 motherboard has a 24-pin primary power supply connector ("ATX
Power") at J20 for connection to the ATX power supply. In addition, there is a 4-pin
secondary power connector at J21 that also must be connected to your power supply. See
Chapter 5 for power connector pin definitions.

Connecting the Control Panel

JF1 contains header pins for various front control panel connectors. See Figure 5-1 for
the pin locations of the various front control panel buttons and LED indicators.
All JF1 wires have been bundled into a single ribbon cable to simplify this connection.
Make sure the red wire plugs into pin 1 as marked on the board. The other end connects
to the Control Panel PCB board, located just behind the system status LEDs on the
chassis. See Chapter 5 for details and pin descriptions.

Figure 5-1. Control Panel Header Pins

Power LED
IDE LED
LAN1 LED
LAN2 LED
Overheat LED
20 19
NMI
Ground
X
X
Vcc
Vcc
Vcc
Vcc
Vcc
X X
Reset Button
Reset
Ground
Power Button
Ground Pwr
2 1
JF1
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