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Bought a new pc and the case has hd audio cable coming out of it, have no idea were it goes.

any help please, my motherboard has 5.1 so will i need the hd audio cable ?
 
xMKproductions said:
Bought a new pc and the case has hd audio cable coming out of it, have no idea were it goes.

any help please, my motherboard has 5.1 so will i need the hd audio cable ?
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If it is a 9 pin connector (5 x 2 with 1 pin missing) or a 15 pin connector (8 x 2 with 1 pin missing), there will be a port on your motherboard for it. It will have the same pin layout, only male rather than female, and it will probably say next to it "HD_AUDIO"

It will look like this:

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It sounds like you are referring to a socket for connecting a cable - there is currently no cable? Is it a Toslink optical or SPDIF (like an RCA) connection? They are usually used to connect to other systems; home theatre, TV.

Have you checked the manual? What motherboard? Do you already have your speakers connected elsewhere on the back panel?
 
I didn't see the question about the 5.1. Some speakers will have all of the cables, and you will probably find that on the back of the mobo on the I/O ports, the sound ports will have at least 3 different ports - all 3.5mm but one is green, one pink and one light blue. Green is sound output, pink is mic in, blue is line-in. Any other colours are for your 5.1 sound, you will have to refer to your mobo or speaker manual for which port corresponds to which speaker. Each colour is standardised to be a side, rear, front and central bass speaker, but I can't remember which is which. It will say on the I/O backplate too.

There may only be the green port for output, and this is still ok. If your speakers came with all separate cables, rather than they all plug into the sub-woofer and then that has a single green ended 3.5mm cable, it may have come with an adapter that has all cables plugged into it, and on the end is a male 3.5mm green output cable that will plug straight into your mobo sound output
 
OK unless I have missed something, it will look very close to what Aastii posted.

Download PC Wizard from my sig and install it
Run it and go to FILE, SAVE AS and click ok
COpy the text out of that file and post it here.

That will tell us the motherboard type, then we can find your motherboard user manual and find out where on the mobo (if at all) the HD_AUDIO connection is.
 
im still only setting the pc up and im using my laptop for the web.

the motherboard is the Asus M4A89GTD PRO

i dont have a cpu yet or graphics card so i cant run the computer yet but it turns on fine.

also a cable called USB i dont know which usb socket to put it in.

also a cable called ac97 dont know were to put that either
 
On your mobo, bottom right which says AAFP is your front panel audio connector and where your HD audio (assuming it is a 2 x 5 - 1 pin variant) will go, else your ac97 will need to go there.

Both are audio, but so far as I am aware, the HD audio has higher fidelity than AC97
 
xMKproductions said:
yeah ive posted that above.

still unsure about the case cable that says USB got 4 slots on mobo can it go into any ?
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On the USB cable does it have any numbers? If so, drop it into the corresponding slot. If it doesn't, I would say try it in each. If it doesn't work it will either not POST at first or will come up with a message preventing it from either POSTing or getting into the OS boot sequence, if that happens just try moving the cable to a different port
 
The 4 ob usb ports are numbered. Left to right = 1314-1112-910-78
I think 78 will be port 1. I have a cardreader that specified port 1 and since I changed ps's the reader doesn't work and I think I just need to change ports. Or now it's dead lol.

Any of the 4 ob usb ports will do for connecting the chassis.
Perhaps whichever is best for your cable management.
There's a blue usb connector that came with the mb that you can use, or not.
(chassis cable>blue connector>mb port)
 
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