need help connecting front panel firewire to motherboard connector

[flexy]

http://home.comcast.net/~gwrauh1/1394.jpg

i scanned the manual for the board and the one for the koutek firewire frontpanel thing. But the instructions/pin descriptions are everything else than clear.

can anyone help ?

thanks !

Edit: mobo connector (dfi lanparty ut) at the bottom....manual for front panel on the top of the scan

 

[mechBgon]

Conceptuals: Firewire has two twisted-pairs for carrying data, and also has power and ground for providing electricity. So you have Twisted Pair A and Twisted Pair B, and each of these two twisted pairs has an arbitrary + and - wire. And then you have power and ground.

So it looks like your Koutech calls the power and ground VP and VG, and they should be on 12-volt and Ground pins on the mobo's header, respectively. And then plug in the four twisted-pair wires as per the mobo's pinout too.

That any help? 😕

 

[flexy]

mbg,

basically yes. Can i just assume that i can take ANY of the three GND pins on the mobo ? mobo connector has three of them and two 12V ones.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: flexy
mbg,

basically yes. Can i just assume that i can take ANY of the three GND pins on the mobo ? mobo connector has three of them and two 12V ones.

If they have three grounds, I'd assume they're all electrically equivalent. And of course I'm never wrong 😀 ...almost. 😱

 

[Matt155]

Yes I would say that you can connect the VG to any one of the 3 ground pins and connect the VP to either of the 2 12v power pins.