Front Panel Header and SATA questions

garyknowz1

New Member
Hello!

Just put together my first PC, however am waiting on a adapter set for my CPU cooler to arrive from Koolance. So keep for fingers crossed until I can test this bad boy.

Anyhow, I have a couple questions about the nForce 780i mobo front panel header and SATA configuration.

Firstly, I’m not altogether sure which way the plugs are supposed to oriented on the FPH; with the words facing out (that’s the way I have it now, and how my old mobo was configured), or inward toward the GPUs?

Secondly, on the nForce 780i board, they have 2 pins for the Power LED. However, the case’s front panel wires came with a line of three plugs for the Power LED. IOW, if I try to plug it in, one plug overlaps. The middle plug appears to be empty. Should I surgically remove the center plug, or how can I make it work?

Third, I have two HDD with SATA connectors. Is there any particular pattern I need to adhere to when dealing with the SATA ports? Right now I have my two HDD in ports 1 and 2, and my optical drives in 3 and 4. The mobo instructions were a little vague about this. Is this a working formula, and in particular, will the HDD configuration support a Raid 0 setup?

I’m certain more questions are forthcoming, but this will suffice for now.

Thanks!
Gary K.
 
As far as the way there turned there should be a little -+. The Power/SW pin connector, if you look at the back of it there should be a little hole, you can push a pin into it to depress the locking tap and slide the wire out and put it in the middle one so it will fit the pins on the board. Your Sata hookups sound fine.
 
Back
Top