HDD LED for Compaq 615

It seems that the compaq 615 does not have a LED for hard disk activity. Is that correct?
If not, are there any specific driver that need to be installed in order to get it working?
Thanks,
Hermann

Guess I'll just go down to Fry's Electronics and get a Promise RAID card, because it's driving me crazy not being able to see the HDD activity. Are there any other solutions to fix this? (i.e. An adapter or something?) I thought Maxtor would have an LED pin on the drive itself, but it doesn't. Any other suggestions?

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I've got a problem with my brand new MSI X58 Pro: I've got an S-ATA HDD (Samsung 640GB) and an S-ATA DVD drive (Pioneer) installed in a Compucase 6X Miditower. There is NO(!) IDE drive. I don't get the HDD LED to work! I've tried everything including a BIOS update to 7.1 - the LED stays out.
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i just bought a hp compaq 615 with vista
and i have heard rumors that the hdd inside is
very unstable and break very easily compared to other hdds
when i first got it the hdd broke like the fourth day so i sent it in to hp
and they exchanged it, right now it seems to work fine
should i trust the new hdd or buy a new one?
the store which i bought it from said that the hp compaq 615 pc
has a uniqe hdd which is only compatible with that model
and that a new hdd would be either very expensive or extremely hard to find
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Yesterday, I noticed the little white LED on the charging port wont come on.Laptop wont even come on, everytime I pressed the power button, the usual white light which has now turned light blue/green comes on for a few seconds and goes off without powering the laptop.
When I plug the charger, the little LED displays light blue/green instead of the usual white light that denotes that its charging properly. the light blue/green light comes on for a few seconds and also the LED on the LAN port blinks red about 10times.
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Caps lock blink 5 times on Compaq 615 laptop, but screen doesn't come on.

My Compaq 615 laptop screen doesn't come on, instead it blinks capslock 5 times. What shlould I do?
It has an AMD Athlon X2 processor, with Radeon 3200 graphics.
I didn't install any new software or hardware recently. All I did was work with the system at night, shut it down, and when I turned it on the following morning, the screen refused to come up, but the caps lock blinks 5 times.

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My 790fx GD70 had approx 3 years of perfect operation, now the HDD led is red :(

Hey everyone I'm new to the msi forums here, but I built a gaming rig about 3 years ago and its been running fantastic ever since.
Ive been looking to buy an Radeon 7950 and finally decided on the HIS 7950 IceQ boost clock from newegg for 299.
So I opened up the case just to make 100% sure that I had the necessary 2- 6 pin power connectors, which I did . I did this while the pc was on (I know dont shoot me!) I didn't touch anything on board just a few wires from the psu to look at the connectors, an my hand slighty bushed the side intake fan, no stoppage or anything like that.
When I looked up after I put the couple wires back I had no display, no keyboard or mouse, and the red HDD led was lit above the mobo power button :( :(.
Ive checked all connections and they seems to be fine, my brother has the same board in his rig, so ill take a pic of his and double check mine just to be totally sure.
The pc powers up with either the case or mobo buttons, all fans (cpu, psu, case, gpu) power up and run normally. All lights are blue that I can see, except for the red HDD led, no display, keyboard, or mouse. Also I cant power the system down by holding down either case or mobo buttons, only by switching the psu off.
After reading up on this forum and a couple others ive come to a couple possible conclusions:
Either something came unplugged which ive some how missed, my mobo has shorted somehow after approx 3 years of perfect operation, or my psu has blown.
Does anyone have any other suggestions for me? Has anyone seen something like this happen before?
The tough thing is this pc is currently used for music recording through pro tools and was about to become the main media display pc at my church, after the purchase of the new video card, so having it down meant no music recording today at church :( :(
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AMD phenom II x4 955
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Thanks in advance for any help you guys can give!
By the way I wrote all that on my phone! Lol

Thanks for all the help so far you guys!! Ok so i spent some more time on it and did what you both suggested. Reseated the ram, 2 sticks of 4 gb 1600 mushkin, made sure that all satas were seated properly on both the mobo and HDD sides, and checked all power connections to the board. After that i cleared cmos, and pulled the battery just to be sure. I checked the case pwr and reset connections on the front of the case and at the mobo, and everything seems to match my brothers board connections (went and took a few pics of his). I also moved my gpu up to the top slot of the mobo so i could see the little led screen on the mobo better.
So i fired her back up, and the dang red light was still on :-(. Also the little led screen isnt post anything at all, no numbers or letters are showing. I believe my brothers read 42 when i was taking pics of his rig (must be the code for all-is-well lol).
My psu is an 850 watt Xion. For + 12v1 and +12v2 its 18A for +12v3 and +12v4 it reads 20A and 22A respectively.
I dont see xions around much anymore, did they go out of business or something?
So do you guys think its probably the mobo since its not giving a display at the little led screen? Did it just happen to blow when i had the side panel off, could i have done something without touching the board to cause this? Maybe handling the wires? Could it possibly be the psu?
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SATA HDD LED works OK.

Well I couldn't resist. I opened up case and took my trusty magnifying glass and looked real close at JFP1 pins 1,3.
Above the pins on mobo is silk screened ' -HDD+ ' . (the - is above pin 3 and the + is above pin 1. Pin 1 is decribed in manual as 'Hard disk LED pull-up' and pin 3 is 'Hard disk active LED'. I had connected the Antec HDD LED plug so that the red wire was on pin 3 and the black was on pin 1 (so you could read the 'HDD' on the plug).
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