Sonata 2 Leds

[SingleAction]

Just finished building a new system with this case. This is the first Sata hdd that I'm using, and everything seems fine. I'm formatting the hdd, and the front panel hhd led is not working. The manual says this led is for ide hdd. is this the problem, or did I hook up something wrong? The geen power lite is working/

 

[Varun]

If you hook a LED up backwards it will not work. Try reversing the plug on the motherboard where you hooked it up. The motherboard has one pin with a + beside it, which is the positive lead. You should hook the colored wire to that pin and black to the ground.

 

[Zepper]

Yes, generally the LED leads will have one positive lead which is a color and a ground lead which will be white or black. Make sure your connection to the mobo header matches the polarity and you'll be OK. But sometimes the LEDs are wired backwards, so just try making sure you actually have it connected to the HDD LED pins on the mobo header and then try reversing the connector if it doesn't actully light up. If you are like me and move stuff around in your case frequently, you will want to rotate the wires on the LED so the colors match the true polarity (perhaps the LED is socketed which would make that easy to do), so you won't have to go thru the same routine again. Finally the LED could be bad (doesn't work either way you hook up the connector) - unlikely but it happens. If that is the case, Antec will send you a new HDD LED assembly. Just ask.

.bh.

 

[SingleAction]

Thanks, I found the problem, it was the Asus Q-Connector, I guess one of it's pins was bad, I put the connectors directly to the mb header, and the lites are fine.

Now I have another problem with power supply! The rear fan is not turning. I guess I'll have to call them monday for a replacement power supply.

 

[Varun]

The rear fan only runs if the temperatures get high - don't worry about it.

 

[Zepper]

Varun has your PSU solution. Yet another bright idea from your friends at Antec... :roll:

Blow into your PSU's air intake with a hair dryer set to hot (one step back from max) while yor system is running and you can be sure that it will kick in. Don't let the experiment go on too long as you don't want to overheat your PSU.

Other than the bad cap problem, I'm sure that that bad idea has caused more tech support calls to Antec than anything else lately.

.bh.

 

[Varun]

Originally posted by: Zepper
Varun has your PSU solution. Yet another bright idea from your friends at Antec... :roll:

What's wrong with having a 2 fan PSU where one turns on only if the PSU needs it?

 

[SingleAction]

Varun;

We went out today, and my den was very warm, so I checked the Asus probe, and the cpu, and mb temp was a little on the warm side, plus the powersupply fan speed was way up.

So I moved the case forward, and low and behold, the ps fan was on! You were right!!!!!

Thanks, one less thing to worry about with this new build

 

[Zepper]

Varun,

What's wrong?.. It wastes the time of your tech support staff and needlessly scares your (generally tech illiterate) customers.

.bh.

 

[SingleAction]

Hey!

Zepper;

Are you calling me illiterate?

 

[us3rnotfound]

Originally posted by: SingleAction
Hey!

Zepper;

Are you calling me illiterate?

"He who dares not offend cannot be honest. " :shrug;

 

[Zepper]

Well, the denizens of the AT forums have fielded the Antec "dead fan" question since about the moment those PSUs hit the street. And it was the same on most other tech forums as wall, I'm sure. But even with all the tech forums there are, it still represents only a very small percentage of the overall, computer-using population that would be aware of it. Most would assume that a PSU fan should be running. Back in the day, PSU fans were full speed 24/7 as it was usually the only fan in the system. When the temp controlled PSU fans came in, the question was: "My fan must be broken, it's running so slow"...

I suppose I should have pointed my reply at Varun's post so others would know that it wasn't for general comment but specific to his question. You'd have to agree that the general public is scarily tech-illiterate.

I'd have to assume you're not totally tech illiterate or you wouldn't be here on the AT Forums now. Reading the "help me" threads out of curiosity rather than just an immediate need, keeps one from getting blind-sided by future corporate stupidities - Antec should have put big fluorescent warning labels on the cases that come with those PSUs and right on the PSU itself for those that buy 'em separately.

Noobs can be forgiven for a while...

.bh.

 

[SingleAction]

Zepper;

With all the reading I've done in the last few weeks to bring myself up to speed, to build a new system, the power supply fan had the lowest level of priority!

Building this system over the weekend has put me into complete overload, with all the compatibility problems,( bios being wrong version for cpu, brand of ram won't boot with Conroe, etc), I didn't have time to check the archives for yet another problem this industry has created, and built in more little surprises to entertain me!

Anyway, the good news is that the outcome of all this torture is that I'm typing this on the new system, which is perfect!

Now I have to just wait for the E6400, and before I install it will just have to update the bios. No problem! Temp using a Celeron 331.