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Need someone familar with motherboard hardware

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ChemMan

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I've got an old gateway system that has an odd method of making the front panel connections. To make a long story short, when I upgraded I initally used the gateway case instead of buying a new one. The front panel connections (i.e. hdd led, no/off switch, power led) are made using an 8*2 header right next to the ide ports on the mobo (it's a tabor 3 using the intel bx chipset). The new mobo did not connect this way so I (brilliantly, I might add😕 ) cut off the 8*2 connector and threw it away. Now that the old parts are back in the original case, I need to reconnect the unlabeled wires to the unlabeled pins. A quick check at gateway's site yielded many good links, but these two are most important:

Close up of 8*2 header

List of signals for each pin

I e-mailed gateway tech support to see if they could give me some better information than this and was told that this is the only data that exists. Could someone take a look at that second list and help me reconnect everything. I want to be sure of what I'm doing before I make a bad connection and cook the whole damn thing.

Here is what I have to reconnect:

HDD led with a red(+) and black wire(-)

A power switch with a white and black wire

A combo power(green) and suspend(amber) led with a black wire(+) an orange wire(-) and a green(-) wire. The green wire powers the green led and the orange wire powers the orange led(imagine that!😉). The black wire is a common postive for both leds.

Thanks
 
Ok, let me put this a little bit more clearly. As is listed on the "List of signals of each pin" (if you bothered to read it) pin 1 has the signal of HDLEDPWR. Now, do I connect the positive lead or the negative lead of the hdd led to that pin. Then, what do I do with the other lead. Should I connect it to Vcc or ground or one of the other pins? If I connect one lead of the power switch to pin 6 (SWITCH_ON) where do I connect the other lead? Do I connect the green led to pin 2 (BLINK-GRN) and the amber led to pin 4 (BLINK-YEL), and if that is the case, where do I attach the last lead? If you know the answer or information that can help me, then please respond, otherwise move on.:|
 
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