Firewire connections on case?

[de8212]

I was looking at connecting my firewire port on the top of my case to the mobo pins the other day. From what I remember everthing looked straight forward except the ground wires. The case wires only had one ground wire but the mobo had three pins for ground. The case manual did not explain much.

Anyone know if connecting all three grounds in necessary? Wouldn't one ground be enough?

Case - Thermaltake Tsunami
Mob- eVGA 680i

 

[de8212]

anyone?

 

[Zolty]

Ground is ground, shouldn't need more than one. I couldn't find a clear picture of the port on the motherboard so I cannot be more clear. EVGA's site kinda sucks for a knowledgebase on this product, no manual or anything useful about this product. My advice would be to hook it up and see if it works, also make sure to turn it on in bios.

 

[Aluvus]

If this is your motherboard, you don't have any Firewire headers on your motherboard.

 

[humanure]

evga . pinout is on page 73, pins 3 4 and 10 are grounds, I agree with zolty, should only need to connect one.

 

[de8212]

Originally posted by: Aluvus
If this is your motherboard, you don't have any Firewire headers on your motherboard.

Yes, it does have pins on the mobo.

 

[de8212]

Originally posted by: humanure
evga . pinout is on page 73, pins 3 4 and 10 are grounds, I agree with zolty, should only need to connect one.

Here's a pic from the manual. Text


Guess I'll try and see what happens. i just didn't want to short something out on the mob or my DV camera.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: Aluvus
If this is your motherboard, you don't have any Firewire headers on your motherboard.

simply wrong
look at the specifications