Motherboard power cables and wires...? >.>;Follow

So my Pc broke down earlier and i decided to see this as the perfect opportunity to replace the whole deal.

Managed to get a very nice ASUS M2A74-AM motherboard, screwed it in place, put on the 4x 2.6 gig processor and was expecting to get it up and running in a few minutes, BUT... then i noticed something odd.

Apparently my instruction leaflet tells me about a 24x plug i'm supposed to have for the EATXPWR (which i asume is the main power, it's the thickest bundle comming from my power unit). But all i have is a 20 plug (10x2) and a 4 plug (2x2) sort of bundled together.

Now the area i can plug it in is 12x2, like the following:

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I decided that if i plugged in the 20 plug (green),

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And then the 4 plug (red),

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I'd fill it up. Surprisingly, it seems like the 4 plug is made to fit alongside it, as the cable isnt very long and cant be plugged in far from it into anything else. But... to be honest, i dont really trust it. Is it safe to plug it in there? I'm clueless when it comes to this.

Also, the system panel connector (10-1 pin F_Panel) tells me about 4 main plugs that go into it's shape of, however i have five. My Power Led is devided into a Pwr. Led + and a Pwr. Led -. I have no idea how to place that in the shape:

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HDD Led: [][]
Power Sw: [][]
Reset Sw: [][]
Pwr. Led +: [] ??
Pwr. Led -: [] ??

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Apparently both the + and the - go in the upper left corner, but my booklet refers to them as one. As does the text on my motherboard. I havent got a clue how to place them as far as where the + and the - go.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Edited, Jan 25th 2010 5:04pm by KojiroSoma

That was a very speedy reply. Thank you.

Thing i was most worried about were the power cables, which should be solved now.
There's an ATX12V 2x2 port i plugged another power thing in. Seems to be made especially for it. I suppose this new motherboard simply requires a ton of power.

As for my strange Led cable problem, I can probably just leave my led lights unplugged till i figure that out. It shouldnt be too dire in any case. I asume atleast they are just for my Led lights given the name writen on them. I imagine plugging them in backwards might shortcircuit stuff, so i'll just see if it works without that.

Thanks a bunch ^^

That was a great help ^^ Worked like a charm.

The whole manual was vague like heck about that part. Lined them up like on the picture as i suspected before, up and running now.

Atleast, back to installing windows, haha ^^

Thank you guys!

A GTS 250 might require a power lead plugged into it, and it might be different than the 4 pin molex (black red yellow one) that the 8600 gt required. you might also need a driver update. Get the latest driver from nvidia.com if you haven't already, and check that your power supply has enough juice. for a 250 you will want a minimum of a 550 watt power supply. anythign less might boot, but won't be stable in full load.