Problem with Intel Board Front Connector pins

Have a problem that I am not getting much help from Intel on. I recently bought a P4 Intel ATX Desktop Board D865GBF. When I went to hook up the Front Panel Connectors, I found that the diagram on Intel's site only has 2 pins for the Power LED, yet the connection is for 3 pins? Anyone know how to overcome this?

From Intel's website -

Front Panel Header
Description Pins
Hard Drive LED 1 - 3
Power LED 2 - 4
Reset 5 - 7
Power ON (Power Switch) 6 - 8

What do you mean the connection is for three pins? The wire from the case has 3 holes? The hdd led connection is 2 pins, 1&3. Are you sure you're using the right wire from the front panel? Look in the manual for your case.

Sorry, I edited the post while you were replying, I actually mean't the Power LED, not the HDD LED.

Did you try to make the connection? Even though the LED connecter from you case is a 3 wire plug the third plug isn't usually hooked up to anything. There are only two wires going into the plug.

Exactly. The plug is 3 wide, but only 2 connect. There is an empty space between the two pins.

Right, there is an empty space on the connector making it 3 wide, so you would think there would also be a space (or dummy pin) on the motherboard to allow the connector to fit correctly (like every other motherboard), but there isn't... The diagram is basically showing it as a 2 wide connector, not 3 wide.

1 * * 2
3 * * 4
5 * * 6
7 * * 8
9 *

HDD LED pins 1 & 3
Power LED pins 2 & 4
Reset pins 5 & 7
Power ON pins 6 & 8

I understand what the diagram shows. What does the board itself have?

Is there another set of pins right next to those? On my Abit, pins 2&4 are for the suspend led (which you probably don't have). But there is another set of pins right next to it which connect the speaker and power led. Its hard to tell from pictures on the internet, but it does look like you might have more pins.

Looking at the board, there are the 9 pins, & 1 inch below there are 2 pins, with a blank one in the middle. I am wondering if that is where the Power LED connector should go? The diagram here http://developer.intel.com/design/m...d/bf/bf_con.htm shows this as Auxilary front panel power/sleep/message-waiting LED.

Try it and see, it won't break anything.

Hello all,

This might sound silly.
I am having the same problem so I plan to cut the connector in half and cut off the empty slot in the middle then just connect the remaining two connectors to the motherboard.

Gordon