K7S5A Pro and connections

[Losin sux]

I have a Pro board with a 1800 XP, 64 MB SDRAM, Gainward GF3 Ti 200 and running XP Pro on a 2 partitioned Maxtor 30 GB. I have loaded XP, vid drivers and mobo drivers. It boots and runs XP fine. I am thinking cool my research into this board has helped me to avoid problems! WRONG. I go to hook up the LEDs, switches etc and I get no sound with the front port "spkr l" and "spkr r" single wires hooked to the front port pins on the mobo. This hooking up requires me to remove the jumpers from "front panel out" to "front panel ret" of each channel. I can get sound from the sys with both jumpers on, and I get sound with 1 channel jumpered (from that channel) and the other hooked to the front port. The case is one I purchased off Ebay. Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated. I have thought about taking an old 2 pin connector and splicing a wire in to the front port wire and putting it in the second pin for each channel. Will that do the trick? I don't want to fry the board.

[Peter M]

You're not supposed to put the case speaker onto the sound unit. This one goes onto the PCSPKR connection found in the same connector block as Reset, PowerButton et al.

[Losin sux]

I am trying to hook up the case front headphone jack actually Peter. I have the case speaker hooked up and it works. The headphone/mic jacks are what I am talking about that go to the mobo header "audio 2". Pin 5-aud_fpout_r is jumpered to 6 aud_ret_r upon opening the box as is 9 to 10 for the left channel. My case only has a single lead for "spkr l" and single lead for "spkr r". Hooking these single leads to 5 and 9 respectively will not allow audio to be heard thru the external speakers or headphones. Do most/all cases usually come with a 2 wire lead for each channel?

[Peter M]

There must be at least a 3rd wire to provide for the return wire or grounding. If you don't close the circuit, then no current will flow, obviously.

[Losin sux]

I ended up using a 2 pin connector for each channel which I soldered together into a 1 pin connector. I then unsoldered a jumper from an old mobo and used 1 pin to hook the "pigtail" I made into it on one side and the single pin connector coming from the front port of the case on the other side. I did this for each channel and then covered it all up with heat shrink. It all works fine now. : )