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Where to get a 3-pin to 2-pin Power LED adapter?

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mgpaulus

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While I was on vacation, the PSU in my secondary system went belly up, and took out my GA-K8NSC-939 Mobo with it. I finally got a Foxconn Winfast 6150K8MA board to replace it, and it seems to be well. All except for one small detail.

The case I have has a 3 pin connector for the Power LED, which was fine on the K8NSC Mobo. However, the new Mobo P-LED is a 2 pin port, next to each other.
Does anyone know if/where I can get an adapter that has a 2 pin female plug on one side, that will go to a 3 pin male on the other so I can plug my power LED cable in?

Thanks.
 
Can't you just slide one of the wires out of the 3-pin connector and then reconnect the wire into the configuration used by the board?

I had this same issue, but it was with the Power wire, not the Power LED wire. The case wire had a 3-pin connector, but only 2 actual wires. The wires were attached to the connector with tiny latches, not soldered on. So reconfiguring it was simple. The unused portion of the connector hangs off the edge of the pinout.

And yes, Foxconn was the culprit in my case too. I don't understand why they use that configuration in their boards, but not the ones they make for Intel.

Edit: Actually...come to think of it, it might have been the Power LED in my case too. It was whichever one was the north-east most wire. Not 100% sure, but I think it was green/black or green/white.
 
I have the same Problem on my Tyan motherboard and a Thermaltake Armor series case. I couldn't use the 3 pronger though, so i pulled the pins out, and used heat shrink tubing all the way to the end of them so they couldn't touch anything else. Only thing bad is having to install the wires 1 at a time, but its not noticable buried in the others.
 
AmberClad, thanks for the suggestion. I will look into that, and see if I can do it. If not, then perhaps I'll try mooseracing's idea. My USB connectors have something similar, with a 3 pin configuration, and then the 4th is a loose single.
 
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