Asus A7V333 questions
ric
Bought a Asus A7V333 VIA KT-333 board the other day which I've got a
few questions about, which hopefully you guys can help with.
It's going in a Verre v770 case with front-panel mic in/headphone out
and USB.
The flying leads from the back of these ports to connect to the mobo
are a bit cryptic - can anyone give me a hand connecting these to the
board?
In particular, the USB connectors are just marked +D and -D etc rather
than the terminology used in the Asus manual...
Also, there's 2 fan connection points on the middle of the board.
One's off the CPU fan, but the other's labelled PSU fan. My psu
doesn't have a connector for this, is this minglish for a case fan
connector?
Cheers all,
Ric
Michael Rodgers
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> Also, there's 2 fan connection points on the middle of the board.
> One's off the CPU fan, but the other's labelled PSU fan. My psu
> doesn't have a connector for this, is this minglish for a case fan
> connector?
High end PSU's from people like Enermax have a connector for this - if you
don't have one, don't worry. You can of course connect a case fan to the
headers.
--
Michael Rodgers, Plymouth UK
http://www.network-southeast.co.uk
Alex Fraser
> and USB.
> The flying leads from the back of these ports to connect to the mobo
> are a bit cryptic - can anyone give me a hand connecting these to the
> board?
> In particular, the USB connectors are just marked +D and -D etc rather
> than the terminology used in the Asus manual...
The USB 1.1 header has connectors named USBPx+ and USBPx-, which I would
have thought was unlikely to be anything other than the obvious. The 2.0
header has LDPx and LDMx, I guess P=+ and M=-. Though in any case, the 2.0
must be wired the same as the 1.1. If you really want to be sure, check how
the motherboard-supplied connector/sockets are wired up.
Alex
GSV Three Minds in a Can
person Michael Rodgers <ne...@network-southeast.co.uk> said
>"ric" <r...@infobubble.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> Also, there's 2 fan connection points on the middle of the board.
>> One's off the CPU fan, but the other's labelled PSU fan. My psu
>> doesn't have a connector for this, is this minglish for a case fan
>> connector?
>
>High end PSU's from people like Enermax have a connector for this - if you
>don't have one, don't worry. You can of course connect a case fan to the
>headers.
Just be sure it doesn't pull more power than the mobo can supply .. some
8cm fans can (especially if they are stalled by anything), which can
ruin the mobo and spoil your whole day. Most case fans have a 4-pin
molex (disk power) connector, of which they use only two pins/wires, and
don't bother with rotation monitoring.
Personally I'd ignore all the mobo headers except for the cpu fan (the
baord will likely decline to boot, or at least bleat pitifully, if it
can't detect any fan rotation on that particular header).
--
GSV Three Minds in a Can
Stephen Robertson
I've just put my A7V333 into the same case, and managed to connect up the
USB headers right first time. :-0
There should have been a slip of paper with the case showing the USB
pinouts. Confusingly the A7V333 manual the USB headers are labelled
differently according to which USB socket it is! Here's the equivalents of
each of the usb port headers to the case plug markings: (According to Page
52 of the manual)
USB 1.1 header
Port 1
Vcc (Red wire) = USB +5V
-D (White wire) = LDM1
-D+ (Green wire) = LDP1
Ground (Black Wire) = GND
Port 2
Vcc (Red wire) = USB +5V
-D (White wire) = LDM2
-D+ (Green wire) = LDP2
Ground (Black Wire) = GND
USB 2.0 header
Port 1
Vcc (Red wire) = USB Power
-D (White wire) = USBP2-
-D+ (Green wire) = USBP2+
Ground (Black Wire) = GND
Port 2
Vcc (Red wire) = USB Power
-D (White wire) = LDP3-
D+ (Green wire) = LDP3+
Ground (Black Wire) = GND
I managed to connect the microphone to the Asus I-Panel header.
Unfortunately both the microphone and case audio connectors require connecti
ng to a ground pin each, but there's only one pin on the header. Looks like
I'll have to find another ground pin to connect the line to, or splice the
two grounds together.
Nice case by the way - easy to get into, and easy to set up. I can't believe
how much room there is inside it compared to my old case. What gets me is my
old case was larger, but was much more cramped inside.
-- Steve