Standards for Front panel connectors?

[deddard]

Does anyone know if there is an agreed standard (IEEE maybe) for the front panel connectos on PCs?
I'm currently trying to find some myself - Like a lot of people (techie and amateurs alike) One of the most frustrating things with PCs is the front panel connectors, both on the case and on the motherboard.
One Motherboard manufacturer does it one way, one another, and the case manufacturers - well the less said the better:mad:

Motherboard manuals often tend to be useless where this is concerned - they think that everyone else should comply with their setup. Case manufacturers just tend to throw the connectors in. The majority I've seen come with separate connectors for every wire - nothing standardised!
I'm currently having problems with a PCChips motherboard and a Jeantech case.
THe PCChips site only gives manuals identical to the hard copies supplied with the mobo, and jeantech's site takes forever to load, as some bright spark decided to load the front of it with a load of animation (there may be other things going on there that my firewall doesn't like)

In the meantime, I'll go quietly insane and amuse myself by trying to get Dragon Naturally Speaking to understand what I'm saying:D

[Sylvander]

Perhaps you should configure your Internet browser to disable animations and sound.

See if that helps jeantech's site to load.

[Paleo Pete]

Seems we had another post not long ago about the front panel connectors...I agree they should be standardized, it would make things a lot easier, same as the secondary USB cables. Both are setup seemingly according to some designer's whims, and it's always a nuisance to have to try and decipher what the manual says. It's also not all that uncommon for misprints to appear in the manuals, so you end up having to do it by trial and error anyway...

The only ones I've seen so far with one connector are from the off-the-shelf brands, and they only fit that model computer...which is even worse...

What PC Chips board? I have a couple of their manuals, and might have one you can't find. I've kept everything I've downloaded for the past 2-3 years, most of it now burned onto CD, and probably have 40-50 motherboard manuals...and I know I have 2 or 3 PC Chips manuals, I've had a couple of their boards to deal with.

[deddard]

Thanks for the replies.
Sylvander - enabling and disabling is of course one way around the site problem, but it is a pain having to keep chopping and changing (I have to have animation enabled due to things like the Cisco CCNA Network academy) -My firewall takes a dim view of animations until I let them through sometimes, and hates banners and the likes - so problems occur there sometimes.
I just get annoyed with sites that load their front end with lots of banners and animations - I guess I take a no-nonsense approach to web sites, animation is fine where it's needed, but leave the front door painted a plain colour so everyone can see it without getting eyestrain!

Paleo Pete - I did a search before posting this, but didn't come up with the post you mentioned - maybe I just missed it. Thanks for the offer of the manual - I do have the relevant one (downloaded and hard copy) but these don't actually help; and it's the lack of anywhere else to go for relevant technical support that is frustrating.
I'd like to be able to ask ' how do the labels on your mobo relate to the other manufacturers? but I guess that's a bit too much.

[pave_spectre]

THIS (http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26222) is probably the other post being referred to regarding front panel connectors. :)

[deddard]

OK - hats off to Jeantech for at least trying. (even if their answer is a bit of a cop out)
I just revisited their site, and the animation is there, but the site loaded quickly - I guess the last couple of times I visited I bumped into a lot of traffic (I know there's loads of DDOSs blocking and swamping out there - the PCGuide site was ultra slow a couple of days back)
There is a reference to front USB panels there, but nothing concerning the sound system. Their advice is 'check the motherboard manual!!'
Apologies to Jeantech for cricitising their site unduly.