Where to put what screw

[Jo_G12]

Hi,
I bought a new case at a show and when I opened the box there are no instructions on how to assemble. I cannot find the name of the case to look on the web for instructions. I know it will fit a ATM Mobo. There are a lot of screws that I have no idea where they go nor how to attach my Mobo. The other one I built was nothing like this. I have got some pictures for you. I hope these help. This is what the case looks like.
Jo

[Jo_G12]

the backside

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The inside

[Jo_G12]

Inside with the power cords. The ones on fromt are the ones with the leds that I'm not sure of

[Jo_G12]

Here are the screws 3 of them are like they might be mounting screws but I'm not sure they are weird shaped with a flat edge where you put in the screws and two side edges that extent up

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The rest of them

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The only paper that came with the case.

[Jo_G12]

This is the bottome half at the smae paper. I thought maybe you can see better if I seperated it.

[morriswindgate]

At the raised bumps the motherboard screws to them. the clips fit into the square holes where the mother board holes line up but there are no raised bumps. Also since you are new to this, only the holes on the motherboard that have metal around them are mounting holes.
The LEDs, speaker, and front USB cables will connect according to a connection map you will find in the motherboard manual. When hooking up the LEDs and the speaker the Black or White wires are the negative ones (-) and the colored wires (Red, Blue, Orange or other color) are the positives (+). However if they don't light up you can just reverse them when you turn-off the system.

[Jo_G12]

And this is the mobo.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Jo

[glc]

Correct, those 3 clips are for extra standoffs as Morris indicates. Clip them into the square holes under motherboard mounting holes that don't have a raised standoff on the tray. The white plastic stud is used in the slot on the tray that you have circled along with the raised standoffs. The motherboard should mount with the short flat head coarse thread screws, the others are for mounting drives in the cages and cards in the slots. You should have a lot of hardware left over when you are done.

By the way, that's a micro-ATX motherboard, it looks to me like it has 6 mounting holes, 5 for screws and one for the plastic stud. Looks to me like you will be using two of the clips.

[Jo_G12]

You're right it I a Mirco ATX I apologize! I hope you can forgive me.
Do I just push the clips in from the front and the mobo sits on them? Do I screw them in from the back? And where does the spacer go.
My other case was a no tools and believe me it was so much easier! lol.
SOmceone gave me a computer to work on and play with and I got it runing in no time and gave it to my oldest granddaughter but my youngest granddaughter got her nose out of joint and thinks I slighted her. So I'm trying to make her one was as least cost as possible. I would not for one second want either of them to think that I loved one of them more than the other.
I Thanks God that you guys are here!
Jo

[Cricket]

Originally posted by Jo_G12 Do I just push the clips in from the front and the mobo sits on them?

You normally push those clips up through the bottom of the motherboard tray...they'll lock in place.

Originally posted by Jo_G12 And where does the spacer go.

Do you mean the plastic one? In the picture you provided (ms4), it's the circled square hole in the upper left side of the picture. The small round end goes into the square hole and the pointed peg end goes into the motherboard mounting hole.

Cricket

[Jo_G12]

Okay, I've got everything in but that darned plastic pin thing. the mobo seems to be real stable. I have another question though. Where do I plug in the casefan? It looks like what you plug into the DVD and CDRW. I turned on the power and the light on the case lit right up so I guess I am on the right track.
Jac

[glc]

You use a standard Molex (the connector that the dvd and hard drive uses) for that case fan. The fan has 2 connectors - the open one is used as a "daisy chain" extension for connecting more devices if you are out of leads, it's kinda like a splitter.