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coma
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posted November 08, 2001 16:47

Hi everyone,

is it possible that the HDD-led of the case is not displaying activity of HDDs connected to the onboard RAID controller? I am sure that I connected the led correctly but it is not blinking during hdd activity.

Thanks,
Dominik

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Xeno
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posted November 08, 2001 22:18

Maybe you have the polarity backwards... Try fliping the conector.

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coma
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posted November 08, 2001 22:41

Yes... i tried that of course. So either the led is broken or the connector onboard is broken or the led is not displaying raid activity. Do you have visual led feedback during raid activity??

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coma
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posted November 09, 2001 23:44

Update: I tried to hook the hdd LED on to the connector for the suspend LED. The led is working in suspend mode so it is not the LED's fault. On hdd connector the LED is still black. Like i said before I only use the RAID ports for harddrives. Anyone out there having LED activity by RAID activity??

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legolas
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posted November 10, 2001 00:05

YES!

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coma
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posted November 10, 2001 01:11

Hmmm... okay... so I don't have any clue...

Do you have any drive connected to the standard IDE port, too??

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fosgate
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posted November 12, 2001 07:11

I have the same board and the same problem. If I turn out the lights you can see the led flicker faintly. If you look on the motherboard next to the reset switch there is a led also for drive activity. It is just barley visible also. I have two IBM Deskstar 60 gig drives setup as RAID 0. I hope someone can help us.

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Xeno
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posted November 12, 2001 09:34

Urm well I'am running RAID 0 and it works for me..

Here is where it is plugged in at..

.._.._.._.._...

Top row left to right (if you can read the TH-7 RAID chip)

first set unused
second set power sw
third set HDD led
fourth set power led

So third set of the top row?

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Diane
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posted November 15, 2001 16:43

I have the th7II w/o raid and am runing a maxtor 40 ata100 7200 on primary channel and a maxtor 40 gig ata 100 7200 on the secondary channel and I too am having the cant see the hard drive light unless in a black hole or an abyss. Also the cpu vcore reports wrong at setting 1.8 I am just at 1.7 or even worse it is correct and abit cant get the right voltages to all the right places on this board. Any one want to trade for a p4t-e this board is really getting on my last nerve! Only one thing positive I can say is it is running 1 gig of samsung rdram 2 are ecc the others are one sided but not ecc. So it seems if you stay with samsung it is somewhat tolerant with the memory! No bios update sure sucks too as has been addressed in many a thread. It might fix the cpu vcore problem but I doubt it will fix the hdd led. Damn thing is the place I purchased it at looks at ya stupid if you want another board because the the led is dim real dim.
I also have a Promise ata 100 controler card and a siig ive tried in it also, plus a adaptec 2940au scsi and the pins on the scsi and promise for led during activity work, also I have tried it w/o any of the cards in and switched positions on the hard drives too, so go figure!

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nor
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posted November 25, 2001 07:43

For HDD LEDs, you have to use low current types. Select them from a dozen exemplares. Even nomimal correct types may only show a very dark flashing light. Normally, there cannot be a defect driver transistor because it is protected by a serial resistor.

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nor
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posted November 25, 2001 08:10

One note, still:
Whenever you put as static voltage to the LED, it will always show a bright light. As soon as you don't use static voltage but one with a duty cicle like that coming from the HDD LED driver the current will be interrupted by at least 50% of the time. So, You get only 50% brightness in result. When duty cicle's interrupts are increasing, LED brightness decreases more and more.

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coma
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posted November 25, 2001 21:56

@nor: hmm.. thanks for your help. that could be the solution. I use bright blue LEDs (coolermaster case). Is that the problem??

Dominik

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