Front panel wires

[larry1135]

So, I have all my new parts and everything is hooked up but it appears I had the front panel wires on backwards now they were connected to the correct device like the ide led was connected to the ide led just had it the wrong way to where it did not light up and so on with the others. Well from previous builds and from what I had read in a online article this should not harm anything is this correct?

The reason I ask is that my speaker wire started to melt and smoke once it was put on the correct way. Now I had switched the wires to the correct way and the leds lit up as they should and this is when the speaker wire melted. When I replaced the case speaker with another and attempted this again there was no problem. So, any ideas why the wire melted a short maybe? None of the other wires melted.

Going to get a new case now and I do not want a repeat on the blue smoke.

Thanks in advance.

[Nikon]

i have seen this in a laptop speaker before, i dont know what else could cause thisthan a short that wasnt caught by OCP. the only way to know for sure if everything is ok is to test it all.

[rwest]

I had a MB that the manual had the pin outs for the the front panel backwards and numbered in reverse from the diagram in the book.

I took me forever to figure out the proper connections. The only clue I had was the one pin that was missing. Luckily there was a refference printed on the MB. It was a stupid ECS board. Jeez, that one had me crawling the walls.