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2 (Positive) and 4 (Negative) (Top Row, left side, directly above the HDD LED pins)

In modern cases, you get a neat little block connector labeled "POWER SW." You plug it in, the computer turns on. Done. On the N15235, you had a forest of individual pins—Power LED positive, Power LED negative, Ground, Reset, Hard Drive Activity—and the silk-screened labels on the board were written in a font size usually reserved for legal disclaimers on pharmaceutical ads. To make matters worse, the pinout diagrams varied wildly depending on which specific OEM variant of the board you had.

Connects to pins 3 and 4 in the bottom row. Orientation does not matter.

A: The Foxconn N15235 does not have a dedicated speaker header on the front panel block. Look for a separate 4-pin speaker header near the front audio or PCI slots.

HDD LED connected to reset pins or vice versa. Fix: HDD LED activity is triggered by the motherboard chipset. It will only flash if connected to Pins 1 & 3. Double-check.