Unused odd connections

[Articus]

Hello, everyone.

I just want to know what are these two unidentified connections are for. It seems that they are not needed nor used nowadays; but I'm still curious about what they can do.

Thanks for your attention.

 

[JaredDM]

The ones to the right are vendor specific I believe and are probably use as a com connection to flash the firmware when it's first built. The one to the left I believe is actually an audio out port which can be used to directly stream CD audio to your sound card in some older systems. You can actually still buy that cable: http://www.cablewholesale.com/products/computer-products/cd-rom/product-11a1-11418.php?utm_source=GoogleShopping&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=11A1-11418&utm_campaign=CD%20Audio%20Cable%2C%20Sound%20Blaster%20to%20MPC2%2C%2018%20inch&gclid=Cj0KEQjwqMHABRDVl6_hqKGDyNIBEiQAN-O9hCvWbpepZbHHb0teAAOD5LlIDQEwsVgmTy_cwPRVkx8aAmBC8P8HAQ

 

[blazorthon]

A lot of older computers didn't have front audio ports on the case. Instead, they were built into the CD/DVD drive and had a cable that went back to a sound card or integraded audio of the motherboard.

Some old CD or DVD drives also had other pins on the back for jumpers to control master/slave/etc. on IDE/PATA drives and also early SATA drives that were IDE/PATA with a built-in adapter.

 

[Articus]

The ones to the right are vendor specific I believe and are probably use as a com connection to flash the firmware when it's first built. The one to the left I believe is actually an audio out port which can be used to directly stream CD audio to your sound card in some older systems. You can actually still buy that cable: http://www.cablewholesale.com/products/computer-products/cd-rom/product-11a1-11418.php?utm_source=GoogleShopping&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=11A1-11418&utm_campaign=CD%20Audio%20Cable%2C%20Sound%20Blaster%20to%20MPC2%2C%2018%20inch&gclid=Cj0KEQjwqMHABRDVl6_hqKGDyNIBEiQAN-O9hCvWbpepZbHHb0teAAOD5LlIDQEwsVgmTy_cwPRVkx8aAmBC8P8HAQ

Ok! Thanks for answering! 🙂

 

[Articus]

A lot of older computers didn't have front audio ports on the case. Instead, they were built into the CD/DVD drive and had a cable that went back to a sound card or integraded audio of the motherboard.

Some old CD or DVD drives also had other pins on the back for jumpers to control master/slave/etc. on IDE/PATA drives and also early SATA drives that were IDE/PATA with a built-in adapter.

Ok! Thanks for answering! 🙂