Case LED lights?

[Jetboy55]

I found the right pins on my atx case button/led module for the power button wire from the atx mobo, but I havent found the right pins to plug in the wire from the hard drive led motherboard pins. The pins on the back of the button unit are 2 pins tall by 8 pins wide. The wire from the mobo is 2 pin wire and fits nicely up and down on two pins and works good. Ive tried all the other pins the same way with the wire for IDE LED but the IDE LED never lights up. Is it possible the wire should go left to right like a couple of the connectors on the chassis set of pins on the motherboard? Also, the system power LED pins on the motherboard are 3 pins, I thought the 2 pin spdif wires I have on hand would do all the connections to the button/led module in my case, but they are all 2 pin wires, and this power light connection (at mobo) is 3 pins, do I need a 3 pin wire to connect to the button/led module in my case. I wish I had the money to just go get a new case with the wires already there and labeled for easy attachment to my mobo. This is my first pc build.

Asus A7V133 mobo
Micron Millenia ATX Full tower case
ATX power supply 300wt from Antec
Athlon Thunderbird 1.2ghz 266fsb cpu

Thanks for any advice.

 

[LickEmSmack]

Look in the manual to find out the correct pin placement for the case LEDs. You can probably find the manual online too on ASUS's website.

 

[fataIerror]

I have the AsusA7V133 and to this day my HD light doesn't come on

 

[gramb0]

Interesting topic, I just got an A7V133 last week.

It took me a good 30min of tinkering before I could get the damn thing to power on due to problems with the switch/LED connections. I did everything exactly as the manual shows and nothing worked. Then I started fiddling, putting them on reversed etc.

I finally have power LED, IDE LED, power switch, reset switch and PC speaker working. Some connections are done the way the manual shows (LED) some aren't (power and reset switch are reversed, so is IDE LED).

The only thing not 100% now if that powering up doesn't always work. I frequently have to turn the power supply on/off a few times and keep hitting the power button until it starts out of the blue. Once it is on everything is fine though. In my opinion, it's not worth the hassling of rebuilding the system to see if another mainboard will help this.

BTW:
Asus A7V133 (rev 1.04 I believe, with 1004 bios)
Athlon-C 1200MHz (266 FSB)
LCF 147 Midtower case with ATNG 300W P/S

ttyl