Someone help me fix this teenager's computer? We have five connectors:

- three black ones with two holes, one labelled "POWER SW" and another called "RESET SW"
- one red one with two holes
- one green one and one white one with one hole

It's a Gigabyte motherboard. Idk who made the chassis.

How do I know which goes where?

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@marnanel the front panel pinout isn't standardized, though there is a quasi-standard that looks like this. The LEDs have polarity but they won't break if you plug them in backwards. Just see which one is on permanently (power) and which one is blinking (HDD) to determine which one is which.

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