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).
So I just reversed the plug and the HDD LED works just fine. I guess I missed the - or + on the mobo. It sure is not obvious if you just read the manual.
Best Regards

Good job, Gary.  
My HDD LED DID light.
Just for curiosity and giggles, I reversed the plug, and no go.
Reversed to original and it works.
Gave me an opportunity for a little cable management too.

Similar Messages

  • HDD Led does not work.

    I recently got a case from a friend and prior to swapping all of my system to the new case I know the HDD led worked(we all look at it to verify HD activity right?).After swapping all to the new case(new to me but used) I hooked up my HDD connectors as were on my old box,with the only difference being this box has 3 possible HDD connectors lableled as HDD LED, I(one) and II(two). I have tried every freekin combo of plugging these in,reversing and so forth and at best I can get the ACTIVITY LED to come on as my system boots and thats it. Once to the desktop no activity from the light whatsoever. Upon seeing this I went to my old box and pulled the HHD connectors from it (1 cuz I knew they worked and 2 cuz they where that cool blue bright LEDS) tried running those and came up with the same results.This is minor but from a tech standpoint I can't stand when something is not right with my box. Any suggestions on what to look at or how to test this without going to Radioshack and buying another electronic device the wife may want to hurt me for buying?

    If its anywhere near mine with lights it may not cover more then one light  just check the manual. 2nd  just plug in led hdd 1 and see if that works unplug that and put in hdd 2. that one thing that would be to see by my opinion to verify they both work.
    hope this helps:)

  • HDD Led with SATA HDD

    When I use SATA HDD the HDD LED doesn't work. It works OK with ATA HDD. Where is a problem?

    Quote
    Originally posted by Domino254
    My LED work on S-ATA too. Dunno why it wouldn't work in yours.
    My mainboard is first revision (got it for the first shipment almost 9 months ago).
    You got your board 5 months before it was released???  

  • SATA and HDD LED on K7N2 Delta-ILSR

    I bought the motherboard about a month ago and ive never gotten the HDD LED to work with my SATA hard drive.  I have an old WD 5400RPM 40GB in the IDE-1 socket, a LG 24X10X40 CD-RW in IDE-2 and a new WD 120GB drive on the SATA-1 port.  The LED works with my other 40GB hard drive, but not with the 120GB SATA hard drive.  Any answer on why?

    Hi,
    This is a known issue on some SATA boards, the drive LED seems to work for some - and not for others. BTW, this is not an MSI only issue. AFAIK, there is no fix for it - unless of course somebody knows better???
    At a guess, SATA is quite new (in the general scheme of things) and I don't think they've quite "Ironed out" all the "Teething problems" often seen in new hardware.
    In my opinion it's not a bad idea to wait for the "Revisions" to make an appearance before committing to newer hardware. But that's just me!
    Does anybody else know any more on this issue???
    There is a freeware program you can download from here that may help - it displays drive "LED's" on your desktop.
    O&O Drive LED
    Sorry I couldn't be more helpful!
    Axel  

  • MSI 875 Pro Neo FIS2R - HDD-LED doesn`t work

    Hello,
    yesterday I got my new MSI 875 Pro Neo FIS2R.
    Installation of motherboard and Windows XP went without any problem. So I`m very satisfied with this Board.
    But now I noticed, that the HDD-LED doesn`t show any activity.
    Then I turned around the HDD-LED plug of the Case with again no success: The HDD-LED doesn`t shine...
    My (IDE-)storage-components are:
    Primary Master: NEC DVD-ROM
    Primary Slave: NEC DVD-RW
    2 x WD Raptor (SATA) as RAID0 (ICH5R)
    Is there anything wrong ? What can I do ??
    CU
    Demian

    Quote
    Originally posted by Maesus
    Quote
    Originally posted by Demian
    Quote
    Originally posted by NovJoe
    For your IDE HDDs, maybe you'll have to try turning the cables arounds and check that if they are sitting in the correct pin fully.
    I already tried turning around the cable, but it didn`t help.
    Therefore I was asking myself, why the HDD-LED didn`t show any LED activities at all (DVD-ROM should work)...
    CU
    Demian
    I truly wonder have you read my reply?
    Hello Maesus,
    yes, I read your reply. But it didn`t answer my question, why HDD-LED don`t show any DVD-ROM activities (remember, DVD-ROM is IDE-primary master and DVD-RW is primary slave)...
    CU
    Demian

  • [nForce] msi k7n2delta ilsr hdd led not work

    hi guys, well there is not much to say only that my hdd led not work, rarely i put attention on it, but just when i see... is gone... sniiiff.. i tryed change the led, invert cables, and the raid controller has nothing to do with this issue, sometime ago i have power issues, and during those times the led suddenly "wake up" , then i change the psu, and hdd, now i have sata hdd, and somebody told me the led not work with the 3· ide or sata, culd be the data cable
    thanks

    "...yes yes i know that, right now using sata i know the hdd led not work, but when i-m using ide drive either, thas wy i saying may be the ide cable.thanks..." That's not what you said in your first post. IF IDE HDD works (even if HDD led doesn't work) then IDE cable should be OK. Perhaps HDD light case/mobo connection has a problem.

  • My 875P Neo won't light HDD LED if using SATA

    I just purchased and built a new system with an MSI 875P Neo and Pentium 4 3Ghz CPU. Everything went fairly smooth except the HDD LED does not work with my SATA drives.
    I tried everything. Took it back to my dealer and he tried a new board with the same results. Then we grabbed an ATA drive and hooked it up and the LED started flashing. As soon as we used a SATA drive it stopped working.
    I'm using two Maxtor SATA 120 drives configured as RAID 0 on the Intel controller. Is this a problem with the controller, the BIOS or what. Is anyone else having this problem?
    BTW, I did flash the 1.8 BIOS before taking it in to my dealer.
    Frustrated....

    Thanks...
    At least I can stop pulling my hair out. I wish it had said something somewhere  on the box or in the manual or even on the MSI site, that it didn't support the HDD LED. I wasted a huge amount of time trying to figure out why it didn't work. It seems like a dumb ommission to not support the LED. I thought SATA was a step forward. I hate losing the LED feature. Does anyone know if this will this be something that will be added in a future flash update or I'm I SOL? Do other board manufactures support the LED? If not then I guess I'll have to accept it. Thanks for the help.

  • The HDD LED doesn't work !! Any Idea ?

    Hi everyone ..
    I have MSI Neo Platinum Mainboard , I installed a S-ATA Harddisk only on the Mainboard , no ATA , but the HDD LED on the Case doesn't work .. There is no Light ... Is this light only for ATA Harddisks wich are installed on IDE ??
    Any idea plz ?

    Exactly...reverse the polarity at the connection....or your HDD activity LED is toast...I've bought new cases where those things just did not work.

  • DMA not working with my SATA HDD (Nforce4 chipset)

    My motherboard is an Asus A8N-SLI with nforce4 chipset, and the problem is that everytime the HDD is working my CPU gets a very low performance because (it seems) DMA is not working.
    I've seen this:
    http://http.download.nvidia.com/XFree86 … blems.html
    But it's strange, because it says this only happens in old distributions, so I'm not sure if this could be related.
    hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
    /dev/sda:
    Timing cached reads: 1220 MB in 2.00 seconds = 609.67 MB/sec
    Timing buffered disk reads: 152 MB in 3.01 seconds = 50.57 MB/sec
    lspci | grep -i ide
    00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2)
    00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
    00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
    "lspci | grep -i sata" outputs nothing.
    hdparm /dev/sda
    /dev/sda:
    multcount = 1 (on)
    IO_support = 0 (default)
    readonly = 0 (off)
    readahead = 256 (on)
    geometry = 30401/255/63, sectors = 488397168, start = 0
    lsmod|grep ata
    pata_amd 15652 0
    pata_acpi 5824 0
    ata_generic 6244 0
    sata_nv 29292 5
    libata 193612 4 pata_amd,pata_acpi,ata_generic,sata_nv
    scsi_mod 133592 5 usb_storage,sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
    Is anybody facing the same problem?
    Last edited by lostevil (2009-11-16 18:32:38)

    Earlier than I thought:
    hdparm -i /dev/sda
    /dev/sda:
    Model=WDC WD2500JD-00HBB0, FwRev=08.02D08, SerialNo=WD-WCAL72647665
    Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs FmtGapReq }
    RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=74
    BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=1
    CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=488397168
    IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
    PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
    DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
    UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
    AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
    Drive conforms to: Unspecified: ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6
    * signifies the current active mode
    hdparm -D1 -Xudma5 /dev/sda
    /dev/sda:
    setting drive defect management to 1
    HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(defectmgmt) failed: Input/output error
    setting xfermode to 69 (UltraDMA mode5)
    HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(setxfermode) failed: Invalid exchange
    So dma is working... but I'm still experiencing the CPU problem.

  • MSI X58 Pro: HDD LED does not work for S-ATA drive

    Hi,
    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.
    I found some reports in the internet from people having a similar problem: no HDD LED for S-ATA drive activity.
    Is there anybody else having this problem? Isn't that possible in general? Is that a problem of the board? The HDD drive?
    Greetings,
    Michael

    You are talking about the status LED on your case, right?
    - Is it properly connected to the right pins on the correct header?
    - Double-check for +/- pins and make sure the plug is not connected the wrong way.
    - Make sure, the LED is not defective.
    - Make sure the cables are not defective.
    - Make sure there is no problem with the pin-plug to the board.

  • Hdd Led Always On!

    The hdd led a time ago only blink when the HD is active...
    But now the led is always on...
    Is there something i can do?!

    Quote
    Does anyone know if the issue w/ the activity LED not working for SATA devices is a hardware issue (like w/ the ICH5), or a software issue (like w/ the BIOS)?
    it is a hardware thingy with the ich5. i seem to remember this once before on this forum, danny's the man to varify this..
    and trusso m8, i seem to remember my DVD drive used to cause my led light to pulsate, if i put it on as a 2ndry master. but this is only possible to do on certain mobo's.
    i think we would all benefit from some machine spec's m8 so if you could post em (or create a sig) it would be both appreciated and beneficial.

  • K8N SLI-FI - HDD LED always on

    To anyone that has used this board, have you had any problems with the HDD LED always being on??
    One of my customers returned two of these boards to me saying that his HDD LED would always stay on with both of the boards.  Thinking that he was just plugging in the LED backwards or something, I tried it for myself and sure enough the HDD LED would always be on.  Everything else worked fine with the board, POST fine, installed WinXP fine, but the LED would always stay on, not blinking or anything, when the hard drive was actually working/accessing.  Even running memtest, the LED stayed on solid.
    Hooking the LED up in reverse caused the LED to no work at all.  Tried with IDE hard drive and SATA drive.
    I'm just wondering if anyone else has this problem.  I don't have any more of these boards in stock to test with . 
    Thanks.

    No, the power LED is working fine.  It stays on like it should.  When both LEDs are hooked up they both are on constantly.  I've tried different LEDs I have lying around the shop, mostly from broken cases, and any LED I plug into the HDD LED connector stays on constently.  Any LED plugged into the power LED connector turns on and stays on like it should.  By reverse I ment that I connected the positive to the negative and negative to positive.  Just as a test.  And the LED did not light up.  Which is supposed to happen I think.
    It's the first time I've seen this problem and the only conclusion I can come up with is there is something wrong with the boards.  It's just where there are two boards, both with the same, silly, little problem. 
    Could it be the brand of hard drive??  I've tried with an IDE Maxtor and IDE Seagate, and a SATA Seagate.  Is there a setting in the BIOS that would cause this??
    Thanks

  • 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 :( :(
    System Specs:
    AMD phenom II x4 955
    MSI 790fx gd70
    Asus Radeon 5750
    Mushkin Redline 1600mhz 4x2
    Crucial SSD 120gb
    Seagate 150gb HDD
    Western Digital 1tb HDD (pro tools session storage)
    LG CD/DVD RW
    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?
    It looks like i may be in for an earlier mobo and cpu upgrade then i had originally planned :-P
    Oh also my case is a full tower Azza, im not sure of the model, but its always had great cooling! (But i dont overclock lol)
    Thanks so much again!

  • MSI x48c platinum - does not detect SATA HDDs

    I am having some problems with a pc build with motherboard not detecting SATA HDDs (MIS x48c Platinum).
    I believe I have exhausted all other avenues, and I would appreciate some help if I have missed something obvious.
    (details of other components are listed at end of mail).
    When I built pc using these components, and went into BIOS settings, the SATA HDD's were not detected.  I tried changing BIOS settings, but no difference if SATA, AHCI, or IDE settings.
    I removed the HDDs and successfully tested them in another machine (also formatted them while had them istalled in other pc).
    IDE optial drives are detected.  I have tried to boot with these disconnected to ensure no isues with both IDE and SATA drives connected, but this did not resolve issues.
    I have also tried connecting HDD to different onboard SATA ports, and connecting just one drive with no success.
    Resetting BIOS defaults, and using clear CMOS reset did not resolve issues either.
    Sometimes on boot, it takes a few attempts to boot correctly, and on these occassions I receive an error message "Warning !!! The previous performance of overclocking is failed, and the system is restored to the default settings, Press any key except "DEL" to enter setup ......."  I haven't tried to set any over clocking.
    I read about a number of issues on MSI forum related to SATA drives which were resolved by BIOS upgrade (mobo was shipped with v.7.0 released 20 March 08).  I managed to install an old IDE HDD and flash BIOS, but still no resolution of issues detecting SATA drives (BIOS V.7.2 released 29 July 08).
    I've tried everything I can think of at this stage.  Is there anything else I should try, or is there something wrong with this motherboard?
    Spec:
    Motherboard:
    343949 MSI X48C Platinum, X48, Socket-775,
    DDR2/DDR3, ATX, GbLAN, 2xPCI-Ex(2.0)x1
    Other components in build:
    CPU Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
    Graphics Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 512MB
    HDD 2 x Samsung SpinPoint T166 500GB
    RAM 4GB (2x2GB) GeIL DDR3 1333MHz Value Dual Channel (7-7-7-24) PC3-10660
    PSU 700W X-Power ATX SLI PSU
    ODD DVD & CDR drives from an old pc - IDE connections.

    i just remember     i had once similar problem with a sata driver. the issue is this you can not adjust everything in bios in one go and expect mobo to know about it. what i mean is this for instance you disable the raid then you save it and exit and then when it reboot you go back to bios and reset another another parameter,  you save and exit and on reboot you go back to bios and reset another parameter. i got round the prob that way and it worked and mobo saw the sata HDD. give this a shoot good luck and finally make sure raid is disabled
    this is what i would do
    1- make sure the jumper setting on your IDE Hdd is correct (Y may have to try this twice as there are two different setting on jumper setting for Master)
    2- connect the sata HDD
    3-click on power
    4-go to bios and disable raid save exit
    5-on reboot go back to bios
    6--on first option click on it then you should see all devices that can be seen by mobo if you do not see sata HDD you have to click on enable for the auto to see the device once it sees the device save and exit. REMEMBER THE JUMPER SETTING  ON IDE HDD CAN CAUSE PROB . SO try the other jumper setting for master, repeat this procedure once more hopefully you get it right

  • Cannot install Windows to internal HDD on dm4t laptop (HDD is working, but not recognized in BIOS)

    Hi All,
    I have an issue with the internal SATA HDD in my Pavilion dm4t laptop (PR #: XQ1313AAR). The drive is working, when connecting via external USB enclosure is recognized by the PC, can read/write data, format partitions etc… When plugged in as internal HDD of the laptop, BIOS does not recognize it. When booting from Windows Installation Disk, the drive (and its partitions) are recognized, but I get the following message when trying to select a partition to proceed with Windows install:
    Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer’s hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk’s controller is enabled in the computer’s BIOS menu.
    Used external USB enclosure again, connected to a working PC and using TestDisk, I deleted the partition table (by zero writing it several times), then created a new MBR. When connecting back as internal drive, it is now recognized by BIOS and in the Windows installation screen, I can actually select a partition on the drive to install Windows on; the installation actually runs, but as soon as I get to the point of having to restart the PC during the installation process, upon restart the drive is not recognized anymore…
    When I remove it, and repeat the same steps with TestDisk, it once again works, can start Windows installation, but it fails upon restart.
    I have already read numerous forums on the topic, have tried various drive utilities. I also saw in one of the forums a suggestion to enable AHCI for the SATA controller, but the laptop BIOS is extremely limited and does not have that option.
    Please help!!! Have been without a working laptop for several weeks and is driving me crazy. Saving any data on the drive is not needed – I have recovered all data from it that I need. So my only objective is to restore the harddrive to fully working state and be able to install OS on it (Windows 7, 64-bit)! Thanks in advance for any help!

    @minxinglee
    even i am getting same errors I hope you found out solution by now ! plz... can u share it ! i need it urgently
    Thanks in advance

Maybe you are looking for