Questions tagged [wiring]
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How do I connect the front audio wires on an Intel mother board?
I am trying to connect the front audio wires of my cabinet to an Intel D945GCNL motherboard.
This is how the pinouts are described by Intel:
These are the wires from the cabinet:
Can anyone tell ...
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How could I identify the usable Cat-5 pairs in this mess of torn-out wiring?
When the previous occupants vacated my new lab space they did a number on the Cat-5 wiring that had previously been installed.
The baseboard jacks at the other end of this mess appear to be okay, ...
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How can I wire my case fans to be powered by my PSU and not motherboard?
My case fans are plugged into my motherboard and I have no more slots for fans. I read from a source on yahoo answers I should wire all my case fans to a molex 4 pin adapter--and plug that directly ...
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Toshiba Satellite disassembled - confused about a pair of black & white wires
I tried to clean up my Toshiba Satellite laptop and it all went well. Unfortunately, I am confused about a pair of black and white wires that come in right beside the fan.
Two wires that go into any ...
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Are Cat5e fully compatible with GBabit specification?
Are Cat5e fully compatible with GBabit specification? What the main difference between Cat6?
Would like a proof if possible.
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What is the right gauge wire for the incoming DSL phone line to my router?
Last year I built my house and I have lots of conduit and wiring throughout. Everything works great except for one nagging issue.
My DSL router's connection seems to degrade over time. It gets to the ...
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Which voltage does the Power-On/Status and the HDD activity LED connectors of a motherboard deliver?
The case I want to use does not have an option to connect the power or HDD activity LED. Therefore I would like to use some 3V LEDs I already own.
However, since they are only for 3V, I would like to ...
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How do you test for noise on a CAT5 cable run?
I've been having some issues with my DSL line and when AT&T did a line test they found a lot of noise.
The technician came out and tested the line up to the house and said it was clean. This ...
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HP DX5150, MS-7050 v. 1.3 Motherboard front panel pin connectors
I recently purchased and installed a MS-7050 v. 1.3 motherboard into a regular non-HP case and thus the front panel connectors are different than the original OEM connectors which are all bundled ...
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Can't connect two laptops using LAN cable
I followed the tutorial at http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-25120-how-to-connect-two-laptops-using-lan-cable for connecting my two desktop computers with a LAN wire.
The computers run the same ...
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Do C13 male/female cables exist? Or do I even need them?
I am hoping to plug a few computers into this HP PDU soon.
I have aftermarket power supplies, all of which take c13 female connections apparently.
The PDU (from what I gather in the pdf) has 8 * c13 ...
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DSL Much Slower when plugged into certain phone wall jacks
I have successfully confirmed that my DSL connection is 1/3 of my full speed when plugged into 2 different wall jacks in my apartment. My building manager linked those two wall jacks together, with ...
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Network corruption - corrupt downloads, corrupt streams, etc
I've been having some problems with my home LAN. Downloaded executables won't run, my remote desktop sessions keep getting interrupted due to encryption errors, flash video streams show visible ...
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What would the purpose of wiring RJ11 into a jack using the 3&4 wires, instead of 1&2? [closed]
I just finished re-wiring my workplace's new office, and noticed that many of the phone jacks in the walls were wired to use the 3, 4 wires in the jack, instead of the middle two. The middle most 2 ...
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LED case connectors on a motherboard
I have the following configuration on the F_PANEL LED connectors on my motherboard:
However, I have just three two-pin wires in my case (called POWER_SW, H.D.D_LED and POWER_LED).
Do you have any ...
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