ASUS A8N-E board HDD Light Question

[tkistre]

I got one of the AMD Tech Tour deals with the ASUS A8N-E board. Everything is fine with it performance wise, but there is this one annoying thing. The Hard drive light on the case always stays on. It doesn't flicker on activity like it should. I doubled and tripled checked to make sure I had the right case wire hooked on the correct post. The case is the same case I've used for the last year. I just upgraded the motherboard and processor. It did work correctly on my old motherboard.

I noticed while looking in the manual, that it states "IDE light" and I'm running a RAID 0 SATA setup. Would this have anything to do with it? The other systems I've built for people used SATA drives and the light worked correctly on them. Any thoughts or experiences?

 

[ProviaFan]

The light works fine for me here on an X2 4400+ and A8N-E rev2.00 with multiple individual SATA hard drives.

 

[BigWookie]

Mine works for me ... you got some other HDD wires to plug into the MB? maybe turn the plug in the other way.

 

[Fiat1]

The HD plug is set wrong on the pin header. Reverse the HD plug on the pin header.

 

[tkistre]

Well, I figured out my problem, but it was a fluke! I had the HD plug set correctly as I had thought. I had ordered a larger power supply for my system and was using a 350w PS at the time. I just got my 550w PS in today. Plugged it all in and now the hard drive light is flickering away like normal instead of staying on all the time. I can't say I had ever seen this before, though I have seen some weird things. Thanks anyway for the help!