P4P800 Deluxe 1394 front panel access cable

[Drs Doug & Lisa Cook]

The cable on my case dedicated to 1394 firewire routing to a front port does
not seem to fit in the motherboard slot. The cable seems to be missing 1
pair of connectors.

I'm not familiar with internal 1394 cable / plug appearances. Scarily the
USB2 Port plug will fit in the 1394 port. I read in the manual this can
damage the motherboard.

I've tried to find a cable to buy to substitute for the supplied 1394 cable
but I can't seem to find one.

Any advice.

Doug

 

[Elvis Chen]

hi,

I posted a question of the related nature, but I now saw your post here.
I too have P4P800 and Sonata, and I can't get the front-panel firewire to
work.

I have done exactly what you described below. Have you actually tried the
front firewire port? I have tried to connect a Sony camcorder and,
although it works with the back-firewire port, it didn't work the
front-firewire port. I have double (and even triple) checked the
connection, moved the ground/power pins around, but none of them worked.

any confirmation is very appreciated,

 

[Elvis Chen]

hi,

I have tested the front-USB (with an USB mouse) and it does work. The
front-speacker/mic take a while to figure out but it too does work. But I
still can't get the front-firewire to work with the sonata case.

If you can, check you check how many firewire-device(s) shows up on the
hardware-info? On my XP installation, it only shows 1 firewire
controller, so it could explain why the front-firewire doesn't work.

Also, I get a yellow "!" mark one one of the USB controller, which is
strange because all my USB ports work.

I don't use the computer often since it was actually for my labmate. For
the time I have use it I have NOT notice any high-pitch sound. In fact,
if I was 2 feet away from the case I can't hear anything at all.

I'm using P4-2.8C (retail, stock fan) and Asus 4800 GF4 cards.