No HD light

[Raduque]

OK, so here's the problem: My HD led doesn't work. During boot, the LED lights up at POST, but as soon as the screen clears and the system summery comes up, right before the OS starts loading, the light goes off, and never comes back on. I know that both these HDs trigger the LEDS in other computers, and none of my other computers have this problem, only this one. I have fiddled with every HD-related setting in the BIOS (not many) and still can't get the HD light to work correctly.

Relevant hardware follows:
MSI K7N2 Delta2 Platinum nForce2
1x Maxtor 40gb ATA (master)
1x Seagate 200gb ATA (slave)

Anybody have any ideas?

 

[otispunkmeyer]

does it matter long as everythings working just fine

 

[MDE]

Flip the plug around.

 

[Raduque]

MDE: I have, but when I do that, the LED doesn't even come on during POST.

 

[SVT Cobra]

put your master and slave in different IDE channels and see if that works...ive seen ppl have bad cables and such that lets data get crossed and refuses to boot properyly...

do you have the jumpers on the back of the drives set properly??

 

[ronach]

Raduque,
I have the same problem, and have had for about 8 mos now. I have 2 seagate drives that do it and one is brand new, so, I'm figgerin that the problem developed in my P4PE mobo. Everything else appears to work fine, so I compute without the luxury of a harddrive light, and all you other guys out there whose HD lights are just ah-blinkin, well, I don't want to hear about it. ronach

 

[ronach]

Raduque,
I have the same problem, and have had for about 8 mos now. I have 2 seagate drives that do it and one is brand new, so, I'm figgerin that the problem developed in my P4PE mobo. Everything else appears to work fine, so I compute without the luxury of a harddrive light, and all you other guys out there whose HD lights are just ah-blinkin, well, I don't want to hear about it. ronach

 

[bob4432]

if you are that worried about drive activity, check out O&O Drive Led, as it also reads the SMART info and tells you the temp of the drive

 

[Raduque]

Son of a N00b: I've tried both drives in different boxes (with different cables) and they trigger the HD LED fine there, so.... and yea, the jumpers are correct, as is the cable positions (master on the connector closest to the mobo, slave on the connector farthest away).

Bob: i will check it out, thanks.