Yes, I just cut the yellow and its associated black lead and rewired to the LED pins on my IDE controller card. Works great.
04-30-2000 22:42:55
RE:HD Activity Light (modified 0 times)
Rick
I have. My Promise IDE controler card makes it easy because it has pins for HD LED right on the board. If you are using the on-board IDE, then pins 15 and 16 on the 22 pin header (lower left of Mobo) are the LED pins for that. It's easy to do. You just need a pair of sizzors. 6 Wires come out of the LED board an plug into that 22 pin header. The yelow black pair is the "Transfer" light. Since the junper plug has an empty space between that pair and the other four wires you can just use a pair of sizzors to seperate that pair from the rest. Then just plug it into your HD LED pins. Remeber the D is for diode so one polarity lights up and one doesn't. If it doesn't light up you have it backwards.
04-30-2000 22:48:20
RE:HD Activity Light (modified 0 times)
Hawk-I
Thanks for the info, I appreciate it. I'm using an ISA IDE controller that has a 2-pin interface for activity lights. Should be no sweat. Just wanted to make sure if I reversed the polarity nothing "bad" would happen, but I guess it would just be like an open circuit thanks to the diode.
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