lack of connectors for IEEE 1394

wootmachine9000 · 05-08-2006, 02:51 PM

Putting all my stuff together and I find that my motherboard (MSI K8N Diamond Plus)has 2 firewire ports so I thought I would hook them up to my case's firewire port on top (case is thermaltake xaser V V5000a) but I don't know which pins go where after a certain point. The motherboard manual tells me the following pin defintion: 1-TPA+, 2-TPA-, 3-Ground (GND), 4-Ground (GND), 5-TPB+, 6-TPB-, 7-Cable power, 8-Cable power, 9-key (no pin), and 10-Ground (GND).

But the case cable from the port to the motherboard only has the following connectors: TPA+, TPA-, TPB+, TPB-, 2 GND (ground), VG (?), and VP (?).

Can I make this work somehow?

**forcifer** · 05-08-2006, 04:45 PM

i think one is FirewireB and other is A. just use the ones that came with the mobo (they take up a PCI slot though)

05-08-2006, 02:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
wootmachine9000 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: RHIT-#1 in Engineering for 8 straight years Posts: 234 OS: none currently-broken My System	lack of connectors for IEEE 1394 Putting all my stuff together and I find that my motherboard (MSI K8N Diamond Plus)has 2 firewire ports so I thought I would hook them up to my case's firewire port on top (case is thermaltake xaser V V5000a) but I don't know which pins go where after a certain point. The motherboard manual tells me the following pin defintion: 1-TPA+, 2-TPA-, 3-Ground (GND), 4-Ground (GND), 5-TPB+, 6-TPB-, 7-Cable power, 8-Cable power, 9-key (no pin), and 10-Ground (GND). But the case cable from the port to the motherboard only has the following connectors: TPA+, TPA-, TPB+, TPB-, 2 GND (ground), VG (?), and VP (?). Can I make this work somehow?

05-08-2006, 04:45 PM	#2 (permalink)
forcifer lurking :P Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Kansas City kansas Posts: 3,596 OS: Vista Premium 32 My System Blog Entries: 1	i think one is FirewireB and other is A. just use the ones that came with the mobo (they take up a PCI slot though) __________________ i do what i do because i enjoy it again. sometimes a little fresh air can do wonders