MSI Xpower Front Panel Headphone Jacks

My cases came with mic/headphone jacks on the front panel. The cable can used as HD Audio or AC 97Audio. I can not find where to hook it up on the motherboard. Is it possible?

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I can not find where to hook it up on the motherboard. Is it possible?
No. There is no mainboard connector. You will find the HD Audio connection on the backside of the Quantum Wave card.

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Front panel audio jack is not working on K9N Neo V2

My front panel audio jack is not working on K9N Neo V2. I check the JAUD1 cable and it appears to be connected to the front panel audio jack. My soundcard driver cannot detect any gadgets when I plug it in the front panel. My audio drivers and BIOS are up to date. Is there any known solution to this? My computer is only a few months old and I have not tried the front audio jack until recently. I'm on Vista home premium btw.
Also, I've got another problem, my processor is AMD 64x2 4400+ overclocked to 2.63Ghz. I've been using that clock value ever since I built this computer and stress tested the processor and found that it would not cause any problems like hanging or overheating. However, I recently decided the need for AMD's Cool & Quiet technology and enabled it. It caused BSODs every few days or per week that didn't happen before. I tried it with the default clock value and it still causes BSODs. Can someone help me?

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Thanks. Its ironic that disabling it actually enables it.
It has to day with the front panel audio wiring of your case. How many wires are there that can be connected to the board's pin header?
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Sound quality isn't very good
Can you be more descriptive? Is the quality better if you plug the headphone into one of the jack at the back panel? (Also, make sure you tell the Realtek HD Audio Manager, that a headphone is connected (and not regular speakers).

To connect a soundblaster audigy 2 ZS to a DELL dimension 8400 front panel headphone/USB jac

Open your case and look at the your front panel USB and Headphone jacks.... look for a black cable and follow it with your fingers until you get to the end. Its should be plugged into your MOBO in a white socket. Carefully unplug it and plug it into a white socket on the top of your AUDIGY. The cable is barely long enough and you might have to mess with it to get it to reach........ that's it!!!!!!!! You can now use your front panel Headphone and USB jacks with your AUDIGY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Some older Audigy ZS's might not have the white plug.............Message Edited by MetalFloyd99 on 08-05-2005 08:2 AM

Open your case and look at the your front panel USB and Headphone jacks.... look for a black cable and follow it with your fingers until you get to the end. Its should be plugged into your MOBO in a white socket. Carefully unplug it and plug it into a white socket on the top of your AUDIGY. The cable is barely long enough and you might have to mess with it to get it to reach........ that's it!!!!!!!! You can now use your front panel Headphone and USB jacks with your AUDIGY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Some older Audigy ZS's might not have the white plug.............Message Edited by MetalFloyd99 on 08-05-2005 08:2 AM

X-fi Gamer + Front Panel headphone ja

Am I able to use my front panel jacks on my case? Any way to utilize the SB sound by doing this?.. I have an Antec Nine Hundred case.. I wrote creative and they keep pointing me to the pin info on the HD Audio plug.. Is there anywhere to plug that into my card? Or ... If I plug the HD Audio plug from my case (front ports) into my Motherboard in the HD audio spot will it route the SB sound to the front panel ports?...

There is an AUX port on my soundcard but the pin count is different than the plug that comes out of the front ports of my case...
I e-mailed Creative tech support but they keep pointing me to the SAME place which doesnt answer my question..
They tell me what the pin's on the case plug mean but they do not tell me what to DO or where to PUT the HD Audio plug to route my video card sound to the headphone/audio/front case ports........

X-Fi issue - front panel headphone j

Just replaced my aging Audigy OEM with an X-Fi Platinum yesterday. Sound quality is great and the system is stable, but I'm having a slight issue with the headphone jack on the front panel. When I plug in headphones, the system properly reconfigures the speaker setup for headphones and mutes the speakers. However, after 2 seconds, sounds start playing softly from the right front and subwoofer channels in addition to the headphones.
Any idea how I can fix the problem? All my connections seem fine and I'm using the latest official X-Fi drivers (not the Beta)

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Noise when using Front-Panel headphone j

This message is for those who may experience noise in headphones plugged into a case's front jack. These noises would likely be heard if one uses a quality phone set with good isolation. (not noise cancelling type) and during quiet times, such as when no music or other audio source is being played, or perhaps when listening to programming with very high dynamic range and the frequent, very low loudness passages of music, etc.. There is no problem with the card. (I'm using an Xtreme Gamer card) The problem will be with the header panel on the case itself. You need to isolate the case ground from the other grounds coming in from the various board headers, such as USB, the sound card, etc. I accomplished this by scraping away the foil from around the stud landings on the panel module board. Of course you need to exercise care when performing such a modification but you will be rewarded with absolute, golden silence, when that's what you should be getting. Again, there is NO problem with the card.

If it is possible to remove the circuit board assembly for the front panel jacks from the case, you can see how the circuit foil "traces" on the board are connected. In my situation, and probably yours, you may find that the mounting screws that hold the circuit board to the computer case will also have the foil traces under them and that those traces will be a common ground to the rest of the circuits on the board. The problem arises because the computer case ground is at a somewhat different "signal" level than the grounds coming into the circuit board from the various "header" connectors, that is, the connectors you mate with the corresponding pins on your sound card, as well as the USB pins, if you choose to hook them up too. There is a great deal of strange noises that can be present in a given motherboard's circuits and associated grounds. All the ground connections from the headers coming into the board should only go to the individual connectors on the front panel. I cut away the foil paths where the grounds were all run together on the circuit board, thus isolating them from one another, as well as cut away the foil under the mounting screws. You may even have to cut foil from both sides of the board, depending on your model. You need to take care not to open up a circuit when making those cuts. A good, sharp Xacto knife or utility knife should work fine.
I found it strange that the designers of the board didn't consider the problem of "ground loops", which is what the problem is defined as. Ground loops, as you can see now, can happen when when a circuit or even separate components altogether, such as a computer, TV and HIFI system are all connected together. In the?HIFI setup case, hum results because the point of incoming cable ground for your TV and/or Internet are at a different 60 Hz voltage from the ground in your home's wiring,?to which your computer is connected for power. This causes a current to flow through the audio cable shields that is large enough to induce a voltage into the audio equipment. I've even heard of ground loops so bad that people have seen sparks when trying to hook up the audio cables between the pieces of equipment. Almost anyone who has a system hookup such as I described has run into that problem of hum when using their computer's audio into their HIFI setup. The only relief is to get some type of ground "isolator" that connects between the incoming cable and your TV and/or Internet cable modem. A quick and dirty solution is to use a grounding adapter in the AC connection for your computer and other equipment that uses a grounding plug. This, of course, is not recommended, but will kill the hum for now. I thought I would throw in the HIFI setup hum problem since, as I said, many people are suffering from that problem.
Even if the header grounds were all shorted together, the problem would be no where near as bad as having the case ground shorted to the header grounds, which was the way mine was made.
I know this is a looooonnnnnng winded post but trying to explain something like this in writing is not easy. Hopefully you will now have a better understanding of what I meant the first time, even though it was by no means a short post either.

MSI 180 front panel not working in both modes

hi,
I bought a msi mega 180 with AMD cpu, works quite nice for a barebone
Now the problem is the front panel doesn't work anymore. It worked before, but now it doesn't work anymore. I think nothing is changed.
I thougt the panel was broken, so I replaced it by a new version at an officiele msi distributor in NL, I placed the new panel. But nothing happened on that panel, on pc and hifi mode.
So I think the barebone is broken, anyone can tell what to try before I can conclude the barebone (motherboard) is broken?
btw, it's connected by 2 connectors, 1 looks like an audo connector the other one looks like a normal connector to me.

Hi,
I don’t think the front panel or the main board is broken I think its something else we haven’t figured out and MSI not willing to help us... I have Mega 865 and I have been having the same problem for almost 3 weeks now... sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t in both modes everything else will work normal except LCM.
Once it works will work perfectly until I unplug the power from the computer then LCM display will not start.
The problem begins when a hardware is installed the first time to get the problem I had just installed a pinnacle TV tuner when I took it off it came back the second time i installed a DVD rom but when I took it out still didn’t work I removed almost everything checked all cables and changed memory couldn’t get it work then I decided to put back everything TV card, DVD-rom, same memory back and still didn’t. Since it had happened before i was not convinced that it was broken then the second day I put the computer on and it worked on its own.. Now it works when ever it feels for it and take the day whenever.
Let me know if you find anything helpful.

Msi K9N NEO @ MSI 7260 Front Panel Connectors Jfp1/jfp2

hi all..
currently i'm using icute ..0508ULA casing ( as illustrated below.. )
ok..i' ve successfuly connect front usb connectors ( JUSB1/2 ) & working fine..
the problems are : i've two connector like this : ( one with number : 1394 & another with no numbers..)
so,..i've refer to the manual book..but no idea how to connect it..
another thing is...my "power led" not working..." hdd led" & " reset button" working good..
there's 3 connector :
1. power switch ( orange & white )
2.reset switch ( blue & white )
3. hdd led ( green & white )
so how to make my "power led" working or need to modified it..?
( please refer diagram below..for msi k9n neo )
anyone using similar MOBO & case ( msi k9n neo & icute ..0508ULA ) COULD PLS advise me
many thanks..

Quote from: BOSSKILLER on 19-August-07, 15:04:24
so the problem is that you can't find the power led cable from the case? if yes, dunno how i can help with that...
search again for the cable.. must be somewhere in the case...
so the problem is that you can't find the power led cable from the case? if yes, dunno how i can help with that...
search again for the cable.. must be somewhere in the case..
dunno what tips more to give you except to suggest to use better glasses
YES..i dunno whre is it..
will open front panel..to see is this thinggy " hidden"..
anyway thnks BOSS..
will update later..

MOVED: MSI mainboard + front panel audio connection

This topic has been moved to Intel Core Duo and Core 2 Duo based boards.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=100680.0

you might wanna try shorting pin 2 and pin 4 with a jumper. Line L to Port 1 L ; Line R to Port 1 R; so as the EAR.

K9VGM-V with no audio on front headphone jack

A week ago I put this MoBo in a eMachines Model T6216 that the original MoBo went up in smoke. I just now plugged the headphones into the front panel headphone jack and it doesn't work. When i go to the control panel and look in the sound tab it says that the headphones are not plugged in. Do I have a bad MoBo or is there a problem with my drivers? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
AMD Athlon 64x2 4400+
Vista Business x32 SP1
Phoenix Bios V1.8
2GB G-Skill RAM

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I did disable the front jack detection and now have audio in the headphone jack
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but it doesn't mute the speakers when I plug the headphones into the headphone jack.
You can manually disable the Rear Panel Jack that your speakers are plugged into via the Realtek HD Audio Manager. Simply klick onto the image that represents the corresponding audio jack.
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but it doesn't mute the speakers when I plug the headphones into the headphone jack.
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Also when I check the audio devices the headphones doesn't show up when they are plugged in.
As was stated before, AC/97 front panel wiring is not 100% compatible with the Intel HD Audio/Azalia standard. Disabling Automatic Front Panel Jack Detection of course has the consequence that your headphones are not automatically detected. Stuff that is not detected do not appear as connected. However, disabling the detection feature is the only way to get your front panel jack to work in spite of the incompatibility between AC/97 and Azalia specifications.

Connecting Sound Card to Antec Sonata front panel line out (Headphone) j

I've tried finding an answer to this, but is there ANY Sound Blaster product that has the capability of connecting to the front panel headphone jack an Antec Sontata case? My current card is a basis Sound Blaster Li've! card, model SB0220, and would upgrade if possible. Thanks for any help.

entasis wrote:
I've tried finding an answer to this, but is there ANY Sound Blaster product that has the capability of connecting to the front panel headphone jack an Antec Sontata case? My current card is a basis Sound Blaster Li've! card, model SB0220, and would upgrade if possible. Thanks for any help.
This perhaps not so easy matter you may suppose. Try Driver Heaven forum for example, to find answer, if there is even a possibility to do this (technically there is but has somebody described it)?
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X-Fi Titanium Championship Series - Front Panel Broken?

7X-Fi Titanium Championship Series - Front Panel Broken?K Initially, the front panel worked just fine - approximately one week. Sound quality was great, too!
However, after gaming, I removed the headphones from the front panel headphone jack. I noticed after that the panel lights indicating Game Mode and X-Fi functions went blank.
- I pressed the buttons and they would not relight.
- I plugged the headphones back into the panel and I still received volume (good quality); however, I no longer could control the volume level using the rotary knob.
- The buttons still would not relight. Additionally, the front panel no longer recognizes when I have headphones plugged into the jack.
It seems like a hardware issue, but maybe someone else has heard of this happening.
Please help!!!!!
With many thanks

Anyone? Creative customer support is taking forever to respond to the support e-mail. I can't find the phone number anywhere.

Audigy 2 NS Front Panel Headph

Purchased this particular model due to the front panel containing a headphone jack. But I get no sound from it. Now I am using Winamp, iTunes or MS WMP. So my question is - the front panel headphone jack, is this only for devices that you hook up directly to the front panel? Should I be able to hear any sound coming from whatever audio source that is generated from the computer through this jack?
I am really stumped on this one. Have searched KB & forums, tried all the suggestions, and can get no sound from the FP HP jack utilizing Winamp, iTunes & MS WMP or anyhting else. Ribbon cable is connected correctly. Beatiful sound from speakers and if I disconnect from the rear and connect the headphones from here, no problemo, get sound all day long. But this defeats the purpose of having a jack in the front.
Hope someone can shed light on this.
Thanks for your time
AJ

Purchased this particular model due to the front panel containing a headphone jack. But I get no sound from it. Now I am using Winamp, iTunes or MS WMP. So my question is - the front panel headphone jack, is this only for devices that you hook up directly to the front panel? Should I be able to hear any sound coming from whatever audio source that is generated from the computer through this jack?
I am really stumped on this one. Have searched KB & forums, tried all the suggestions, and can get no sound from the FP HP jack utilizing Winamp, iTunes & MS WMP or anyhting else. Ribbon cable is connected correctly. Beatiful sound from speakers and if I disconnect from the rear and connect the headphones from here, no problemo, get sound all day long. But this defeats the purpose of having a jack in the front.
Hope someone can shed light on this.
Thanks for your time
AJ

Using Front Panel Composite Video 2 RCA Jack on the HP m8000 Media Center PC

I have a HP M8000 Computer with front panel RCA jacks, composite video 2 and Left and Right Audio RCA jacks. I have been unable to determine how to select these jacks for inputting video recordings to the computer. Any ideas on how to use these jacks to input video from my VCR?

The front composite video jacks did not have software support for the release of this PC. The analog video software was not compatible with Windoze-Vista so there was no software given with this PC model that supported analog video input.

Front Panel Audio Issues on both Z97 and X99

Hello,
I am an owner of a Z97 PC Mate and a X99s SLI Plus Mobo.
On both of these mobos, with the latest realtek drivers I cannot get front panel audio working.
I have also tried the MSI drivers for each mobo from the product pages.
I have "Disable front panel jack detection" enabled on both. If I disable this, it shows the jacks not being utilized.
The realtek hd manager shows that both the front panel headphone and mic jack are being utiliized, even with nothing is plugged in and if I have the front panel header disconnected from the mobo. On each model I made sure that HD Audio is enabled in the UEFI.
I feel that since I am having the issue on two seperate products that there is a similar issue between each that I cannot figure out. I do not have this issue on my ASUS Z77 Sabertooth.

Quote from: Nichrome on 02-May-15, 15:28:51
Hi
What is the case are you using?
Also are you sure you plug the front audio properly? Or if there are no bent/missing pins? I am on my 3rd MSI board (I switch a lot :D ) but all worked fine with my case.
Try using audio while either board is running on non conductive surface (e.g. wooden table or motherboard box). Might be something shortening the board.
I've tried both boards in all 3 cases I own.
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