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Firewire conection on Ultra Multy Port 5.5" Dashboard?
by Kermit
(El Paso, Texas, U.S.A.)
Monte, me again the other day while at the local computer supper store I picked up an interesting dashboard this thing has more bells and whisles than I can use but have had some interesting results after the install. It came with 4 usb ports 2 SATA Ports 5 card reader ports front audio jacks and a firewire port. Instructions a little poor but understandable; except the connection on the mother board for the firewire. This connection for the Firewire is the same as the front Audio which has caused some confusion by those who have written about installing this and other front dashboards in their computers. The only port on my computer that matchs this is the serial port I decided not to connect it as I was unsure of the correct connection on the motherboard. One of the reviews on this dashboard stated that the installation guide was so vague that he connected to the wrong port on the motherboard and burnned up the motherboard.
So where does the firewire connect and just what is it used for?
Another oddity of this dash board is that I was able to get everything I conneted to work except the front mike. Did not connect the 2 SATA leads to the motherboard. I decided to remove the unit to see if the front mike would would work on a computer that uses a different motherboard. Results were interesting. Got the front head set and mike to work on this computer the SD card readers to work but the front USB port none of the 4 connnected to the proper headers would work checked device manager reviewed the motherboard manual and checked the BIOS all said the USB ports were working, but could not get the new hardware wizzard to show a connection to the Flash drive it did on the first computer I installed the dashboard in and the front mike head set is the main reason I purchased the dashboard. On both computers I had to go into REALTEK HD AUDIO MANAGER advance setting to get the system to reconize the front head set jack a I tested the mike on both computers in SOUNDS Recorder.
Ended up puting the dashboard back in the first computer and using the orginal system to connect the front audio which is 2 cables with jack plugs that run out the rear of the computer and plug into the rear mike and speaker jacks. Which prevents me from connecting external speakers to this computer if I want to use them.
My question is again where do I connect the fire wire on the motherboard?
Many thanks,
Kermit
P.S. Just read your interesting HOW-TO install of your computer network in the RV using laptops as servers; man that is a bundel of wires in the photo.
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