System users do not always know where all the critical points of cables are. Sometimes difficulties are encountered in connecting jacks to the motherboard. Generally the difficulty is located in the ...

I’m a big proponent of DIY PC building and I tend to describe it as “relatively straightforward.” For the most part, everything just plugs in where it should. But there is one aspect of putting ...

Today’s audio-visual (A/V) receivers are, at their heart, seriously high-performance multimedia computers. These monsters integrate beefy digital signal processors (DSPs) in order to decode, encode, ...

In the dawning of the IBM PC era, the computer case was a heavy, stout thing. These were industrial machines, built with beefy paddle power switches, and weighing as much as a ton of bricks. Painted ...

I just got this case. I was looking to try and hook up the front USB connectors. I have a Gigabyte 8IHXP that has some extra connectors I can use. The cables that came with the case don't fit the ...

I get the above message even after I've removed both front panel USB connectors (2.0 and 3.0). I originally thought it was because those had been damaged, since the 3.0 ones are very tight (my case is ...

Q: Who do I have to buy lunch for so that somebody standardizes front-panel pins? A: Heh, this one’s a perennial annoyance, isn’t it? The front-panel pin layout on a motherboard varies a lot. Most DIY ...