How to Install a PCI-E 1X Jumper Wire?

The Jumper Wire itself is nothing more than a thin insulated strand of copper wire such as the insulated strands inside telephone wiring (about 26 gauges). Make sure you retain the insulation so you do not short anything out. The motherboard used in the below example has very small holes to insert into which made it difficult to push in (most have much larger). It would of required thinner wiring than shown below.

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1. First obtain and prepare the jumper wire. I suggest using telephone or cat 5 wiring strands since it is copper and pretty thin. Cut it to approximately 2 inch in length and remove a quarter to a third inch of insulation from both ends of the wire.

2. Insert the stripped ends of the wire into the PCI-E 1X slot as shown below. Make sure you insert it far enough that most of the copper is not visible on the wire.

Please make sure it is exact or else you can damage the hardware!

Insert the stripped ends of the wire into the PCI-E 1X slot

 

 

3. Insert the PCI-E 1X cable into the slot and you are done. Verify the position of the cable - that it is not touching any capacitors or anything else since the hardware does get hot while running. Please note, the wire in the photo below is extruded a bit more outwards than it should have been. You should try to tuck it up against the cable to not impact other devices of fans of nearby video cards if not all are mounted on riser cables.

Insert the PCI-E 1X cable into the slot

 

That's all to it. Go Start Mining!

 

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