What does Chassis drct does?

[Steven_Fikhman]

Hello, Recently I noticed my GPU was sometime becoming a bit hot when playing video games, so I though I should install a second case fan(under the HDD), anyway, turns out my PC only has one plug that underneath it is written "Chassis fan", but, after looking at the rest of the mother board, I found a 2 pin plug that had underneath it written "Chassis drct".
What is this plug for? is this for a 2-pin fan? or is it for something else?
thanks in advance.

 

[lucas_7_94]

Which motherboard?

 

[nukemaster]

If you connect a momentary switch(like the power/reset buttons on most cases) to it, pressing that switch should make the system enter the bios instead of using the keyboard command(the system may reset to do this, so do not press it in windows unless you have to). It is an Asus feature.

This connector is for the chassis-mounted button that supports the DirectKey function.
Connect the button cable that supports DirectKey, from the chassis to this connector on
the motherboard.

More info on directkey
https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1000990/

 

[Steven_Fikhman]

Which motherboard?

p8h61-m lx r2.0

 

[Steven_Fikhman]

If you connect a momentary switch(like the power/reset buttons on most cases) to it, pressing that switch should make the system enter the bios instead of using the keyboard command(the system may reset to do this, so do not press it in windows unless you have to). It is an Asus feature.

This connector is for the chassis-mounted button that supports the DirectKey function.
Connect the button cable that supports DirectKey, from the chassis to this connector on
the motherboard.

More info on directkey
https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1000990/

My thanks 😀

 

[nukemaster]

You may be able to use a fan splitter/Y-cable to run the 2 fans. You can also just connect a fan to the power supply. based on your manual the board does not control the CHA_FAN plug anyway.