I recently bought a set of parts in hopes of building a new PC. I have everything connected properly, except I can't figure out how to connect my front panel of my case (2 usb ports, speaker, mic, and firewire ports) to my motherboard.

I was under the impression that they plugged in here:


but I can't figure out how.

Here is the mobo, just for reference:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128376

The case (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119068) has the following front panel cables:
NOTE: When I mention two colors, it means that there are two wires sort of wrapped around each other, both going to the same plug

- A green/white cable that splits into 2 single pin connectors. The green goes to the pin with a + and the white goes to the pin with a -.
- An orange/white cable that says HDD light on it. (2 pin)
- A gray cable that says Reset SW on it. (2 pin)
- A blue/white cable that says Power Sw on it. (2 pin)
- A black cable, but at the end it has wires and it has a yellow 9 pin connector that says HD audio. This also has another 9 pin connector branching off of it that says AC 97.
- A yellow/black cable that says Speaker on it.

I know what all of these cables are meant to do (except the AC 97 one), I'm not stupid. I just have no idea where on the motherboard to put them.
Also, there is a USB cable, but I know where that goes :P.

I really hope that these are compatible with my motherboard.
Can anyone help, hopefully with a picture ;D?

Thank you very much.

i'm pretty sure those are caps that you remove

I gave a good tug at the plug parts and they wouldn't come off and if I pull any harder I'll probably break them.
I'm fairly certain they are not supposed to come off.

those plastic things have to come off.

I'm not trying to be a jerk, but I really don't think they're supposed to. Unless I like cut them in half, they're not coming off. If they were supposed to come off, they wouldn't require as much force as I'm putting on them.

Here are a few pictures of the cables: (My camera sucks, I know ;D)




The black fuzzy thing (fuzzy because of the camera) is the thing you guys are telling me to remove. They look like this:

No dude don't remove THOSE, remove the things under where you said "i was under the impression that they plugged in here", that's what they're talking about.

Ohhhh. I already removed those, that's why I was confused ​.

Also, I kind of just realized that that image that I posted as an example is exactly what I was looking for.

I still don't know where to plug the black/yellow sound cable though.

Never mind, found it.

I don't know why my google searches didn't find anything, but my google image searches got me everything I needed.

Look immediately to the right (in the picture's point of view) and you can see the labelling for what goes where. Pretty self explanitory what the abbreviations mean.

The ones on the picture that I posted were illegible and the ones on the actual mobo were just as hard to read. As I said above, the image that I posted was what I was looking for, so yes. You are correct if you are referring to the second picture.

Your motherboard manual should tell you where and how these things need to be plugged in.  If you don't have it, check the manufacturer's website for an online copy.  It's somewhat different for every one so it's kind of hard to just straight up tell you.