Power led adapter

[Rockhound]

Anyone know where to get a 3 pin male to 2 pin female power led adapter? New motherboards only have 2 pin power connectors and some cases have the power led connected to 3 pin female connectors that will not work!

Looking for simple fix versus replacing the led.

 

[CheesePoofs]

All the motherboards i've worked with had a place for both types of connecters, but they had slightly different names. Look again at your motherboard and its manuel to make sure it doesn't have a 3 pin power connector.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

. . . . or sort through some cyber-junk to find the right sort of mobo-pinout-plug-and-wire assembly, fire up your solder-gun and make with some wire snips . . . . That's what I did. anyway, if the two-pin mobo male-pinout connection is on the end of a mobo pinout array, and the pins are adjacent, then you could swap the wire in the three-hole plug for the center hole.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Whoops. I'm sorry. I got it the wrong way around. You have the 3-pin (with an empty center prong?) mobo male connector and a 2-pin plug on the wire? You just need to find a three-pin plug, de-couple the wires from the 2-pin and plug them in to the three-pin plug.

Of course, you need a supply of "cyber-junk". Try a computer repair store. You can probably get it for free if the owner does a thriving business in computer case, circuit-board and rare-metals salvage.

 

[DmdStar]

I found 'em over here at Directron:

http://www.directron.com/3pinled.html

... with a Google search