HDD light

[keith with the teef]

You know the HDD light on my gaming PC is like a disco.

The HDD light on my media center PC is like a psychedelic disco.

So I can either turn of the music or un plug those little blinking lights.

What fool invented the HDD light. Did they ever really use to fail that often enough to warrent a mineva test.

[wasbit]

I find the HDD light very helpful.

If you want to go the whole hog, Glint will allow you to customise up to 200 lights for various activities & it’s free. Says for Windows 2k to 7 but it’s been reported to run on Windows 8 so should be ok for Windows 10.

 

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wasbit

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[Dave Rice]

It’s plugged into the motherboard alongside the rest of the “front panel” – power light, reset and power switch.

This is the standard configuration. Some OEMs, like Dell and HP will mess about with this, but if it’s a commercial motherboard it’ll follow this pattern. Sometimes right next to it there will be another block of pins for legacy speaker connections.

You’ll usually find it along the bottom of the motherboard to the right. It’s the only connection that will have multiple cables going into it.

[Les.]

My shuttles are interesting. The one I bought new 8 or so years ago has “normal” HDD activity and a blue “PC on” light,  exactly like the arrangement Dave shows.

However, the one I bought S/H last year, with earlier S.No. is different. I think the blue shows briefly, then goes off, whilst I think the HDD led is normal. Instead of the single connect as per Dave’s piccie, instead there are TWO connectors going to different parts of M/B. It is the front panel part which differs, both M/Bs are the same.

Strange. Les.

[Dave Rice]

I believe Shuttle design their own motherboards and it’s those that do that tend to muck about. In the case of Shuttle, split placement may make the internal cabling simpler for the small form factor. I think Dell do it just to be awkward.

[Les.]

Other than the physical size, these shuttles’ on board stuff is absolutely conventional. 2 spare double USB connectors, the one you posted earlier for front panel, IDE, SATA, floppy, standard ATX power with the extra 4 pin, PCI and PCI-e as well as all the normal front and rear panel stuff.

It is just the front panel itself of the earlier S.No. that uses different connectors, even though the usual setup is present.

No idea why. Les.

Edit, missing apostrophe.

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