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i have the case an d i have been trying to get the led light to come on .but i just cant not get it to work .
i did falow the motherboard manual how to plug the wire but still no go .this the case brand new .
APEVIA X-TROOPER Series X-TRP-GN Black / Green Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case.
this is the front light thank
The LED case lights have a + and a - wire. I assume you tried connecting the 2-pin connector rotated 180 degrees. Did you try connecting in place of a working LED to test to make sure that the LED is good?
i have one + and one-.
i did not rotat them 180 but 1/4 i did .
rigght nor i have the letter on the top .
bottom of the board facing up .
now i will take the dvd out and look and see if there is a led light in there .
if you take a really good look at the picture you will see a little red light at the lsft at the back of the front panel .
i do not have that small light there .
now i do not have the monitor plug in .is that make a difference .
i waithing for my expess 2 video cart because my new board do not have a video build in .my bad .
i will let you knoe in 10 minutes as soon as i take the dvd out .
ok got it .there is 2 light that i cant see up there .
the wire are green and white coming from the light .
so next i will turn the 180 like you said .
i let you know .
You cannot hurt an LED by connecting it with the wrong polarity, so if it doesn't work, just plug the connector in the other way, as JDC2000 said.
Where are you plugging the LED in to?
no go .i did rotat them .
but do i have to plug the - also or only the +
i do not see the - on the pin connection .
the board .i go by what the board manual show [diagram].
this is not a big deal but it be nice if i could get it light up .
on the board the is 2 + but i cant not see the - .
one thing my eyes are not the best .lol
this is my board giagram .Quote:
Originally Posted by yvesj
now do i need 2 +wire because it show 2 + and one -
Connect the LED between either of the +'s and the - of the PWR-LED pins.
thank .only the plus .
i only have one +.
one more thing i did not run the driver yet on the mobo is that could be the problem .my mobo only have a 9 pin male connector on it .so i cant connect my monitor yet till next week
just asking .
i did that about 10 time so far .Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperSparks
it is really easy there is only 3 pin to connect to
i guess i wait for next week to install vista and up date the mobo driver .
then i see what happen then .
i will let you know next week .
thank you
The failure of the power LED to activate has nothing to do with operating system.
According to your N68S3+ manual,
The coloured wire should be on either pin 12 or 13
and
The white wire should be on pin 14.
sorry but the computer in my signature is the one that i trying to get to work .
the one in my signature is the one that i build about one ago .
now i am building a new one again to pass the time ..
my new mother board is .
BIOSTAR A870 AM3 AMD 870 SATA 6Gb/s ATX AMD Motherboard.
now the two wire comming from the light one is genn and one is white .this is the 2 wire that i have been playing with .
now one have a plus on it .the other one have - on it .
it still not working .so i gave up for today
yes but were is pin 12 or 13 .every one know here that i am no good at that stuff .
i am 67 and only been on a pc since 2006 .no school on top of that ..
i know that 12 .13 14 are on the mobo manual.but why dont they pin point were they are on mobo .
you look at the book then you look at the motherboard it is a different story because there is no number on pin
Orientation of the pins are the same in the manual and the motherboard.
And
The two "+" symbols are on the motherboard as well.
yes .i do plug it on the + on the mobo .
on the mobo there is 2 of the + pin but one - . in the mobo manual it show were the - is .so this is were i plug the - .that leave me with 2 + pin to plug the + wire .
if the light don't work when i turn it on after i get my monitor plug in .
this is what i be getting next week .
EVGA 512-P3-1301-KR GeForce 8400 GS 512MB 32-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Low Profile Video Card
here it isQuote:
Originally Posted by yvesj
You can plug the LED into either of the + pins. There are two pins because some cases come with a 3-pin wide header plug, and some come with 2-pin wide. So by putting two + pins the mobo can accommodate either.
The LED will only illuminate when the computer is powered up, in case you were thinking that it would be on all the time.
thank you .i only have one + and one -.
now i do not have nothing done with this pc yet .
i am waithing for my video card to come in.
maybe it is because of the driver that as not been done yet .
no os yet .i mean nothing .
now i was thinking of use a 4 pin molex cut it and only use the black and the red wire .then connect the power led + to the red wire and the - to the black wire so this way when i turn the computer on the front panel will light up right .
what do you thing .
by the way the red wire is + 5 v so do you that will burn the front led light bolb
No driver is needed to get the power LED to illuminate, only power.
thank .what do you thing about what i want to do with the 4 pin molex .
do you thing that it could work .
now i did change my signature .
if you look at it this is what i have all brand new never been use yet .
as for the power led connection i am doing exacly what you all said and what it show in my mobo manual .
so there is nothing i cant do more for now .
this after noon i was reading about a apevia case with the same problem that i have .and the answer was .is go the device manager and enable the power led .
but it was not the same case and the same mobo.
but i cant check this out yet .i am not hook up to my monitor yet
all is working .led fans [9] of them .Quote:
Originally Posted by jdc2000
power off and back on .etc.etc .it all working .
it is only that power led light that is not
If you have the connector for the power LED connected properly, then most likely the LED is either not working, or the wires and connector are faulty and no connection is beinf made. You could connect it to a 5 volt source from the power supply, but that would defeat the purpose, since it would be on all the time as long as the PC is plugged in ATX power supplies never completely turn off.
here is the diagram how to connect them from the mobo manual .Quote:
Originally Posted by jdc2000
as you see it is really easy to plug them in the right place .
now you said that 4 pin molex will work ok .
my computer never stay on for long when am not using it .
this one here that am using i set it to hybernate afer 20 minutes so every thing is turn off after 20 minutes
now there is only one way that i screw the wire .
when i did slide my dvd in it got stock on some thing 2/3 of the way in .because i am on the top slot [hole] this is were the small board with all the wire for the front panel .
so maybe when i push to hard on the dvd i rip some wire off the board .
you know what i mean by that .that top front of the case have 4 usb .one e-sata .plus 2 more .one to listen to music .one i dont really know it for .
so there is a lot of wire going down to the board over the dvd .well i did manage to tuck them all on the side of the dvd .
so if i use the 4 pin molex but only the red and black wire to try it is it possible that i burn the led light .
well i have nothing to loose here right
As I mentioned earlier, unless you unplug the computer, the power LED will be on all the time if you power it the way you are suggesting. A much better idea would be to verify that the connector and wires attached to the LED have continuity, and if the LED is actually faulty, replace it.
today i did check all the budget mother board and there is about 75%of them do not have a build video card .
so i did see it [no video ] in but i figure that it was only to play game .
all i did is look at the board and when i saw that it had the blue 15 pin connection for my monitor i did order it .
but guess what it was not a 15 pin .it is a 9 pin male [com1]
what is this any way .it no good to me .
so by the time i pay the board and the video card i be up to 160.00 .tax and shipping just because the board did not had one
got it working now with the molex .i cut the molex in haft .only keep red and black took out the yellow and the black .
all i did is use the red and the black wire from a 4 pin molex .
i did connect the red wire to the power led +.
and the black wire to the - wire .
that was it .
so it was not the led light bolb that did not work .
now it as to be some thing with the mother board .
the only thing the led is not green like the rest of the case .
it is a yellow greeniss like color .lol .
ha well it working .