Aurora R1, top I/O panel part number needed

Aurora-R2 might be the same, but not R3 or higher. Examine/Compare PDF Service-Manuals.

Other options include:

a. Alternatively, plugging-into the back sockets.

b. Use one of these. This also allows you to easily switch between speakers and headset from TaskTray (no physical unplugging of cables each time). 

Yeah, I still have a working Aurora-R1 also. I know of a working SATA-3/600 PCIe Addin card for your SSDs if you are interested. Lets us run our SSDs at full-speed finally (about twice as fast as previously allowed with just on-board SATA-2-300 interface). Works great and allows C-Drive to still be bootable.

Thanks, I didn't think about option B.  Yeah R3 has USB 3 so didn't think it would work. 

Was the SSD solution for me?

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@j0nx wrote:

 

Was the SSD solution for me?

 

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Sure ... if you are going to keep the machine a while longer.

I would assume that by now your C-Drive is a SSD. That card will allow your SSDs to run at full speed finally (instead of reads around 275, they will be around 550).

I finally put one in my Aurora-R1, and now that I see the speed increase, I realize I should have done it long ago. I use mine as a HTPC on my Home-Theater projector ... Kodi (with Harmony remote) and games in Steam's Big-Picture-Mode with a Sony DS4 Controller.

5W6MX Aurora R1/R3/R4 front I/O port standard

3NPG0 Aurora R1/R4 front I/O port ALX

Aurora R2 is not showing at all on the parts page. We can assume it uses same parts as Aurora R1 and Aurora R3.