Connecting the Front panel Led on Aerocool P7-C1?

Aug 28, 2018
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I bought the Aerocool P7-C1 case and idk where to connect the molex and other wire to power the front panel. Could Someone help
CPU COOLER: Corsair - H100i v2 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
MotherBoard: MSI - Z370 GAMING PLUS ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB GAMING X 8G Video Card
Case: Aerocool - P7-C1 White ATX Mid Tower Case
 
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The front panel has seven connectors on cables that need to be plugged into ports on your mobo. Two of these are for the pushbtton On / Off and Reset switches, two are for LED indicator lights, one is for the HD Audio sockets (earphones and microphone), and two are for different types of USB ports.

Start with the four small connectors, each on ends of just a pair of wires. Each has a label on it. These all connect to particular pins on the mobo's Front Panel header at bottom right marked JFP1 - see your mobo manual p. 31. The case manual on p. 5 has an error. Is shows "HDD LED" labels printed on one two-pin connector and also on two single-pin connectors. That is wrong - one of those must be the PWR LED connector, so look carefully at...
The front panel has seven connectors on cables that need to be plugged into ports on your mobo. Two of these are for the pushbtton On / Off and Reset switches, two are for LED indicator lights, one is for the HD Audio sockets (earphones and microphone), and two are for different types of USB ports.

Start with the four small connectors, each on ends of just a pair of wires. Each has a label on it. These all connect to particular pins on the mobo's Front Panel header at bottom right marked JFP1 - see your mobo manual p. 31. The case manual on p. 5 has an error. Is shows "HDD LED" labels printed on one two-pin connector and also on two single-pin connectors. That is wrong - one of those must be the PWR LED connector, so look carefully at what you actually have to distinguish them. For both of these you must plug them into the mobo header with the correct polarity, so pay attention to the + and - labels on the wire's connectors and on the pin label diagram of you mobo header. (IF you get polarity wrong there will be no damage, the LED simply will not work. If you find that, simply reverse the way the plug is connected until it does work.) Plug the two wires for the HDD LED into mobo header pins 1 and 3 at bottom left of the header (pin 1 at the end is +). Plug the two for the PWR LED into Pins 2 and 4 above that.

Polarity does NOT matter for the leads for the two switches. Plug the two wires for the RESET switch into Pins 5 and 7 at bottom middle; the two for PWR Switch go to Pins 6 and 8 above that.

Now find the cable with a five wires marked HD Audio. Plug that into the mobo JAUD1 port at bottom left (p. 35) - note that one missing pin on the header must match the blanked hole in the connector.

Next comes the cable with five wires and the label USB. Plug this into ONE of the JUSB1 or 2 headers at bottom middle of your board (p. 33). And finally the larger connector ending a heavier cable: this is for the USB3 ports, and plugs into ONE of the mobo headers JUSB3 or 4 about the middle of the right edge of the mobo (p. 33).

The case web page indicates it has a SD card reader slot in the front, but the manual fails to specify what cable from that must plug into what mobo header. It MAY be a second USB2 cable that plugs into the other USB2 header at bottom middle.

That case includes fans with LED's and I think also some LED's in the front panel. Although those may be controllable by your mobo's 4-pin RGB header, the case comes with Aerocool's own P7-H1 Hub. Apparently you connect both fan motors and LED systems to that unit and connect the Hub to a USB2 mobo port and a power source; then you use the Aerocool downloadable software utility to control fan and LED lighting.

I did not find in the case manual any mention of connecting a Molex male connector to a PSU output. Do you actually have such a thing?
 
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