PC on/off reset switch wrong plug for new motherboard, Help!?

Question

Jst installed a new motherboard and CPU but my old reset / on/off switch and harddisk drive front panel led plug is wrong.

The old switch is 8 pins in a row, empty, black, green(Power LED),blanked, black, Yellow(HDD LED), black, Red(power/reset switch). It was originally a HP pavilion PC.

The new Motherboard is a ASRock 775i65G and has 9pin (2 rows of 5) plug, PLED+, PLED-, PwrBtn#, blank, HDLED+, HDLED-, GND, RESET#, Dummy.

Does anyone know what sort of plug this is and where i can buy a new front panel switch/led display that will fit. Also is there a quick way to fire the pc up by shorting the PwrBtn# pin to GND just to turn the pc on. I know that the atx power supplies don't need the power button pressed in once the pc is on, they will only turn off if it is held on for 4 seconds. This means it's got to be a momentary on switch so shorting the terminals should work, i just need to be sure of the terminals.

Any help much appriciated, really want to get it working tonight

Answer 1

Yes, it is a momentary switch. You should only have to short the PwrBtn and the one next to it to get it on.

If the old connector has all 8 pins on the same plug, you could just pull each individual connector out of that 8 pin plug and attach them to the motherboard manually. Otherwise, you could to go a pc repair shop and see if they have any old cases that you can harvest the connections off of and then just splice them to your case.

Answer 2

on most towers the leads for reset and hdd led are terminated by a single plug for each rather than one plug for all.
as in a previous answer, you could remove the pins from the plug and put them where needed, but dont forget to use some insulating tape between them

Answer 3

Sorry to say but you should go buy a new case ultimately as the MB and PSU may not fit correctly in your case