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My Seagate Sata hard drive is using the HDD activity LED.

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DARQ MX

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heh, I know, I know. I have owned my mobo and rig for like 5/6 months but I never really cared about my Activity led until now.

As of late my HD has been paging a lot and I would like to monitor were it is paging. So I want to get the led working, but it is not.

My case is the TT Tsunami and I plugged in my HD led wire into the mobo when I first installed it 5 months ago and never got a light up at all...

Does anyone have this mobo or this problem? Or could the LED in the case be a defect?
 
Originally posted by: chilled
I have a Chieftec DX case, and my HD led doesn't show up either. Is this a SATA issue with old mobos?
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It's more likely just plugged in wrong... Unless you've tried switching the HD LED (reverse the wires) then there is still a chance you can get it to work by just swapping the plug.
 
Originally posted by: CraigRT
It's more likely just plugged in wrong... Unless you've tried switching the HD LED (reverse the wires) then there is still a chance you can get it to work by just swapping the plug.
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Yeah, that's what I bet the problem is. Just try flipping it around.

There's a chance that the SATA will not light up even if you do get that main IDE LED working. Usually the SATA ports are on a separate chip that runs off the PCI bus, so they would have to do some fancy stuff to get the LED to work for both your SATA chip and the IDE on the northbridge.

I have a separate PCI IDE card in my computer (actual card, not just a chip on the mobo that uses the pci bus) and it has a lead on the card to plug in another LED. On my case I have 2 auxiliary LEDs, so actually I have 2 IDE LEDS that blink separately.

I say all this because there may be a separate lead on your motherboard for the SATA LED. Probably not though.

 
Do you know if the sata is driven from the northbridge or if it is a separate chip on the board?

If it is a separate chip, the IDE led just may never light up.

If you have a spare IDE drive laying around you can test this out. Just plug it in and turn your PC on. It will start blinking during the POST. If you see it blinking then you know you have the LED in correctly and you can shutdown the PC before it attempts to boot. If it doesn't blink, you can switch the LED cable around and try again.
 
And you know what else is funny? The power LED never worked either. Should I ask call or aask Epox if this is just a bios setting?
 
I am not sure, where the Sata bus driven on the board but lots of ppl on this msg board know my mobo I heard.
 
weird, but most cases come with a ide-led that is 3pins (one empty spacer in the middle) and some mb only have the 2 pos/neg right next to each other so you have to splice the empty middle section out.

are you sure your plugging them into the right spots? colored wires are always positive, black/white is negative, usualy the motherboard will have some kind of indication as to which pins are which
 
Have you tried to plug in an IDE hard drive as I suggested? Have you tried flipping your power LED connector?

If neither work, then yes, you should probably get a replacement case if you care that much about the LED.

Didn't you think about it when you first assembled the PC? "Hey, the power LED doesn't work"... "oh well".... is that how it went?
 
lol... pretty much I did not care about the lights cause the cover is closed, I will try the IDE tonight. I just got to find some IDE cables lying around...
 
quite odd, my epox 9npa+ultra rig works fine showing the LED on an SATA HDD. It could be a defect LED. Are you sure it's not upside-down?
 
Well I put a new IDE drive in and it is working but I doubt it is my SATA drive cause I am putting a new partition on that IDE drive and it is constant lit, so I know it is that drive. Also my power LED was in the wrong way, So I switched that around and it was fine.
 
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