Front Panel
Front panel—serves as the user interface. The front panel contains the user interface control inputs, such as knobs, sliders, and push buttons, and output indicators to produce items such as charts, graphs, and image displays. Inputs can be fed into the system using the mouse or the keyboard. A usually rectangular section of something (as a door or a wall) 2 : a piece of material (as plywood) made to form part of a surface (as of a wall) 3 : a board into which instruments or controls are set. 4 : a group of people appointed for some service a jury panel. The Front Panel Connectors, also known as the Front Panel Header or FPanel, is a block of connectors on a motherboard that control the power on, power reset, beep code speaker and the LED light indicators on your PC case/chassis. ... The cables that connect to the motherboard come from the PC case.
Afaik, there's still no standard connectors for the front panel. Most of the time motherboard manufacturers share the same front panel pin layouts and some of them don't. This is why case makers give you separate wires for each connector for the front panel to adopt to different pin layouts. The VDG is for some of the Gigabyte and Aorus motherboards that only used the 3 pin connection. other brands all used the 4 pin connector and Gigabyte swapped to that style on the more recent boards. You need to use the same connector that it shows for other brands that uses the 4 pin connector with 1 pin missing.
