Asus Q Connector

[Noah7139]

After purchasing a new Asus Mobo to replace and upgrade an old prebuilt Dell PC, I am having lots of trouble connecting the front panel cables. Here is a link to the pictures in my situation. https://imgur.com/a/Pre4U when I attempted to find a right order for the power connectors I got the SB power light to go on on my Mobo but the power button did nothing, how in the world am I supposed to connect what looks like a USB front panel cable to the power switch and the reset switch??? Please help me out.

 

[Crashman]

After purchasing a new Asus Mobo to replace and upgrade an old prebuilt Dell PC, I am having lots of trouble connecting the front panel cables. Here is a link to the pictures in my situation. https://imgur.com/a/Pre4U when I attempted to find a right order for the power connectors I got the SB power light to go on on my Mobo but the power button did nothing, how in the world am I supposed to connect what looks like a USB front panel cable to the power switch and the reset switch??? Please help me out.

Get a non-Asus motherboard. Back when Intel came out with the AC97 audio header, it also standardized a bunch of other connectors including the one you're talking about. Most manufacturers, other than Asus and Supermicro, use that standard.

 

[Paul NZ]

USB doesnt go to the front panel. You plug it into a USB header

Read the manual

 

[Crashman]

USB doesnt go to the front panel. You plug it into a USB header

Read the manual

Re-read what he said. He said it looks like USB but isn't. The "standard" is a 9-pin connector based on two 5-pin rows with the last pin on one row removed, and the spot on the cable end blocked off. The four pin row is:
PWR-LED+, PWR-LED-, PWR-Switch, PWR-Switch, (blank pin)
The five pin row beneath it is:
HDD-LED+, HDD-LED-, RST-Switch, RST-Switch, Redundant Ground.

Both pair of switch wires are reversible on most cases because they shunt each other inside the switch.

 

[Paul NZ]

Well the manual will tell him

 

[Crashman]

Well the manual will tell him

I'm going to rephrase this: The manual will tell him that his connector doesn't fit.

Most cases have separate power switch, reset switch, power LED and hard drive LED cable ends

His case appears to have a ONE-PIECE 9-pin header that fits the Intel front-panel connector adopted by companies like ASRock, Gigabyte, and MSI.

He would need separate leads for those four things to fit an Asus board. He doesn't have separate leads, but as long as his single connector is wired for the Intel standard header, he can use those other boards.