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    hard drive access light not working

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    by yul711 ·

    I installed the brand new motherboard MSI K87 Neo2 Platinum in my computer having three IDE hard drives (two drives master-slave on one IDE connector) and one drive alone through PCI IDE card. Second IDE connector connects DVD-RW and CD/RW as master-slave. No RAID, no SATA drives present. All drives are recognized fine by BIOS, computer works fine, power indicator works, but hard drive access light does not work. I tried to flip light connector to motherboard pins, but it did not help. BIOS flushed with the latest version. Same light connector and same hard drives worked fine on the old failed motherboard. Any ideas/suggestions how to make hard drive access indicator work? Many thanks for help.

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    • #3120031

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      by rickrbyrne ·

      In reply to hard drive access light not working

      Hi,

      What you want to do is get the manual out for your new motherboard and make sure that you have all the cables plugged into the right spots on your front panel Pins on the Board. It could be as simple as a miss placed wire. Make sure that it is done just as the Manual says.

      Rick

      • #3131470

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        by yul711 ·

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        Thank you veru much for your help. I had the problem with bad indicator microbulb. After replacement hard drive indicator works fine.

    • #3117989

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      by 3xp3rt ·

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      If you find the right motherboard connector and still not working, you must try to put the connector in the other way. For indicating must put the ground to ground and the + sign to + sign.
      + – – +
      _____ _____
      HDD led | | | |
      connector|___| |___|

      MB ___|_|___________________|_|________

    • #3117881

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      by skidoggeruk ·

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      Is there a connector on the PCI card for a light? Have you tried that? Does that show OK for the drive that is hanging off of that board? Just kinda wondering if that may have something to do with it.

      You could do test the HDD LED by connecting it to the power LED point. Maybe you have done this already?

      Goos Luck

    • #3117880

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      by skidoggeruk ·

      In reply to hard drive access light not working

      Is there a connector on the PCI card for a light? Have you tried that? Does that show OK for the drive that is hanging off of that board? Just kinda wondering if that may have something to do with it.

      You could do test the HDD LED by connecting it to the power LED point. Maybe you have done this already?

      Good Luck

      • #3131466

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        by yul711 ·

        In reply to Reply To: hard drive access light not working

        Thank you veru much for your help. I had the problem with bad indicator microbulb. After replacement hard drive indicator works fine.

    • #3117879

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      by skidoggeruk ·

      In reply to hard drive access light not working

      Is there a connector on the PCI card for a light? Have you tried that? Does that show OK for the drive that is hanging off of that board? Just kinda wondering if that may have something to do with it.

      You could do test the HDD LED by connecting it to the power LED point. Maybe you have done this already?

      Good Luck

      • #3131464

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        by yul711 ·

        In reply to Reply To: hard drive access light not working

        Thank you veru much for your help. I had the problem with bad indicator microbulb. After replacement hard drive indicator works fine.

    • #3131785

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      by m.a.s. matrix ·

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      Look at the hdd connector from the led from the case. does it have a 3 pin connector? if it does you mb only supports the 2 pin version. you have to use a pin or tip of a sharp knif and lift up the plastic holding the wire in(i believe it’s the black wire) and move to the free slot next to the red wire. the the 3 pin connector doesn’t fit, use a SHARP knife and cut the unused plastic off the end that you removed the black wire from.

      • #3131463

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        by yul711 ·

        In reply to Reply To: hard drive access light not working

        Thank you veru much for your help. I had the problem with bad indicator microbulb. After replacement hard drive indicator works fine.

    • #3131462

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      by yul711 ·

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