Front Power LED problem

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Samik Raychaudhuri

Hello,
I have an ECS K7VTA3 MB. It has a set of 9 pins to plug LED connectors for HDD, Power/MSG, Power switch and Reset switch. Interestingly, the female Power/MSG plug which came with my case (it's a generic case I got from Newegg) is like this:
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1 2 3
It has 3 slots with 1st and 3rd connected to a green and white wire respectively. I can only put 1 & 2 (or probably 2 & 3) with the MB connectors. But then, the LED doesn't glow, b/c either cable #3 or #1 is not connected.
Anybody has similar problem? Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
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Samik said:
Hello,
I have an ECS K7VTA3 MB. It has a set of 9 pins to plug LED connectors
for HDD, Power/MSG, Power switch and Reset switch. Interestingly, the
female Power/MSG plug which came with my case (it's a generic case I got
from Newegg) is like this:
__________
| | | |
----------
1 2 3
It has 3 slots with 1st and 3rd connected to a green and white wire
respectively. I can only put 1 & 2 (or probably 2 & 3) with the MB
connectors. But then, the LED doesn't glow, b/c either cable #3 or #1 is
not connected.
Anybody has similar problem? Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
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Yes. Cut the connector in half, down position 2, so you have individual
pins and slide them on the right mobo pins.
 
Hello,
I have an ECS K7VTA3 MB. It has a set of 9 pins to plug LED connectors for HDD, Power/MSG, Power switch and Reset switch. Interestingly, the female Power/MSG plug which came with my case (it's a generic case I got from Newegg) is like this:
__________
| | | |
Click to expand...

I had the exact same thing on my ECS 848P-A mobo. What I did was to
(CAREFULLY!!) cut the connector in half so I could put the proper wires on
the proper pins.
 
Rich said:
I had the exact same thing on my ECS 848P-A mobo. What I did was to
(CAREFULLY!!) cut the connector in half so I could put the proper wires on
the proper pins.
Click to expand...

Thanks much to all who replied. I will try that out.
-Samik
 
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