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Dell front panel to motherboard cable

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JAlexander

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i cant find a cable that looks like this one. i installed a new motherboard on a friends computer and this cable wwent from the front panel to the motherboard. the computer still wont fire up but i broke this cable. i am guessing it connects the power button as the cable from the power button goes to the fromt panel card and this cable then connects it to the motherboard. i cant find this cable anywhere. it says usb 2.0 on it and made by foxconn. i have some pics not very good though. its 33 pin and thats about all i know about it. anyone have any ideas.

jim

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first of all, get a better camera ASAP. second of all, that looks like a floppy drive connector. that looks like a parrelel cable and i fail to see why dell would use something like this. but worse come to worse, just buy a $3 switch from RC and connect it to the power pin on the mobo.
 
Where is the cable broken ? ?
In the middle or is one of the connectors bad ? ?

The Dell computer model would help to locate
an exact replacement.

If you want you could send me the bad cable
I can match it up or find a way to splice it
that will be reliable ... but I need it in hand to do it

 
bruce i will get you the model and yes the end is bad it broke off. i just cant understand why i cant find a cable like this online.
 
here are some much nicer pics. in the last pic you can see the front panel. the cable to the left is the power button and the right slot is where this cable should go. the cable does say usb2.0 on it yet the motherboard slot only says front panel. my guess is that it connects everything from the font to the motherboard and this is why i get no power on. any help would be great. the computer is a dell 4550. the model number is c7tzk21. thanks.
 
thanks that is eaxctly what it looks like. so this is why still no power up with new mb. cause i need this cable to get the power switch connected to the motherboard. thanks for all the help guys. i searched for 2 hrs before i posted here and i'm not a newb to this stuff but i couldnt find the stuff you guys did. thanks alot.
 
will do. had a computer shop do the testing on this as i didnt have the time and they said the mb was the problem and nothing else. i know the ps works so will keep you informed. thaks.
 
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