Motherboard lights

[Lori A. Kuiper]

I have an Abit NF7-S V2.0 motherboard with onboard Serial ATA,Firewire and
LAN. There is a green light on the motherboard and next to it a red one. I
am not sure what these are for. I have looked thru the motherboard manual,
and I believe the green light is for the onboard LAN, but there is no
mention of another light that I can find in the manual. Could this be on
because I do not have the LAN port connected to another computer--possibly
telling me that there is no information flow, or is there just something
wrong with the motherboard?

Anyone familiar with this board? I am new at this and this is the first PC
I have ever put together from scratch. So far, everything seems to be
working well.

Also, I have an Althalon 2500+ processor installed.

 

[Jef Norton]

| I have an Abit NF7-S V2.0 motherboard with onboard Serial ATA,Firewire and
| LAN. There is a green light on the motherboard and next to it a red one.
I
| am not sure what these are for. I have looked thru the motherboard
manual,
| and I believe the green light is for the onboard LAN, but there is no
| mention of another light that I can find in the manual. Could this be on
| because I do not have the LAN port connected to another computer--possibly
| telling me that there is no information flow, or is there just something
| wrong with the motherboard?
|
| Anyone familiar with this board? I am new at this and this is the first
PC
| I have ever put together from scratch. So far, everything seems to be
| working well.
|
| Also, I have an Althalon 2500+ processor installed.
|
|
|

Hi Lori -

The red LED lights when there is backup power supplied to the board (i.e.,
your PSU is plugged in and turned on). The green LED lights when you press
the power switch to start the board.

There are LED's for the on-board LAN located on the LAN connector socket in
the rear I/O panel. These LED's only light when there's a network cable
connected and a signal is detected. If you don't intend to use the on-board
LAN at this time, disable it in your system BIOS (Integrated Peripherals |
OnChip PCI Device menu, disable LAN Controller) - otherwise you'll
experience frequent "lags" on your system due to the on-board LAN searching
for a DHCP server, which can never be resolved.

Download the latest manual for your board:
http://fae.abit.com.tw/eng/download/dlmanual.php?name=NF7 Series&file=nf7.pdf

.... all the previously undocumented jumpers and LED's are now documented.

Congratulations on getting your first system built!

Jef

 

[Robert Comer]

On my abit motherboard (not the same model as yours) the green and red LED's
are power indicators, one being power to the power supply (always lit when
plugged in) and the other one is lit when the computer is "on".

The green indicator that shows LAN activity is right next to where then
Ethernet cable plugs in...

- Bob Comer

 

[Jef Norton]

Hi Lori -

By the way, you'll get quicker and more accurate information on your Abit
motherboard from:

- The Abit newsgroup: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
- The Abit forum: http://forum.abit-usa.com

Jef

 

[Lori A. Kuiper]

Thanks so much for the info. Although everything seemed to be up and
working, I was concerned that there was something wrong when the red light
came on and did not go off! Thank goodness all is OK--I would hate to take
it apart if there wasn't anything wrong!

I will check out the Abit forum also.

 

[Jef Norton]

| Thanks so much for the info. Although everything seemed to be up and
| working, I was concerned that there was something wrong when the red light
| came on and did not go off! Thank goodness all is OK--I would hate to
take
| it apart if there wasn't anything wrong!
|
| I will check out the Abit forum also.


Hi Lori -

Happy to pass the information along.

Jef