HDD LED responds to CD-ROM, not hard disk

[Steve Kobes]

I have:
- MSI 875P Neo-FIS2R motherboard
- Seagate Serial ATA hard disk
- Sony DRU-500A internal DVD/CD drive

The HDD activity LED responds to the CD-ROM instead of the hard disk!
I have connected it according to the motherboard manual (JFP1 pins 1
and 3). Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance,
Steve

 

[JAD]

saw this once where the boot sequence determined the LED's source,
can't remember the brand.

 

[Rich Greenberg]

I have:
- MSI 875P Neo-FIS2R motherboard
- Seagate Serial ATA hard disk
- Sony DRU-500A internal DVD/CD drive

The HDD activity LED responds to the CD-ROM instead of the hard disk!
I have connected it according to the motherboard manual (JFP1 pins 1
and 3). Can anyone help?

Just a WAG, but try swapping the pin 1 & 3 connections.

 

[J. Clarke]

I have:
- MSI 875P Neo-FIS2R motherboard
- Seagate Serial ATA hard disk
- Sony DRU-500A internal DVD/CD drive

The HDD activity LED responds to the CD-ROM instead of the hard disk!
I have connected it according to the motherboard manual (JFP1 pins 1
and 3). Can anyone help?

Most likely the LED is tied to the PATA host adapter, not the SATA.

 

[Michael Hawes]

Just a WAG, but try swapping the pin 1 & 3 connections.

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The HDD LED ia an IDE activity light and is supposed to respond to HDs &
CDROM activity. It is NOT responding to SERIAL IDE activity, which is poor
design or a bug in BIOS. Check for BIOS upgrades.
Mike.

 

[Steve Kobes]

- MSI 875P Neo-FIS2R motherboard
- Seagate Serial ATA hard disk
- Sony DRU-500A internal DVD/CD drive

The HDD activity LED responds to the CD-ROM instead of the hard disk!
I have connected it according to the motherboard manual (JFP1 pins 1
and 3). Can anyone help?

Thanks to everyone who replied! I have the latest BIOS (v. 2.4).
Changing the boot sequence makes no difference. With pins 1 and 3
swapped, the LED does not come on at all.

It does appear to be a defect in MSI's 875P motherboards. I also
found this thread: http://tinyurl.com/6eqdb

So I guess I will live without a hard disk LED.

--Steve

 

[pgx]

(e-mail address removed) (Steve Kobes) wrote:

|So I guess I will live without a hard disk LED.


Steve,

I had the same problem with an ABit board. ABit support said that was
as designed. Win2K, however seems to actvate the led??

Phil

 

[Steve Kobes]

I had the same problem with an ABit board. ABit support said that was
as designed. Win2K, however seems to actvate the led??

I'm running Windows XP sp2, although I don't see why the OS would make
any difference.