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Hey everyone,

Before I did an OS and FSX reinstall, I installed an IDE drive for storage on my P6T motherboard. It was connected to the same IDE cable as my DVD burner (it's pretty old) and everything was working fine, as it is now. However, back then I was actually able to get the HDD light to work normally and only light up when drives were in use. But now, I can't get that darn LED to work right, no matter what I do.

As I said, the DVD burner and the HDD are both on the same IDE cable (only 1 IDE port on this motherboard). The burner is set to master and I have tried every other jumper setting with the

Power down and disconnect the burner from the data and power cables

Boot up and see if the light remains on

If it does not then it has something to do with the burner

If it does and the IDE hard drive is suspect... repeat and remove it too. recheck

I assume there is no disk in the burner?

Also.. check the cable.. could be defective. Install another ATA100 cable and see what it does

The should function on CS (cable select) as long as you plug them in correctly blue

Hey Nick, thanks for the reply

Well I had tried what you said many times, and the light would sometimes stay lit with only one of the devices powered... But I tried it again and this time I gave it a different 4-pin power connector from the PSU and what d'ya know? that took care of it...

Thanks again man!

Andy

Interestingly I have a case (Cooler Master HAF 932) that the HDD led will not go out on.

I plugged a different led in from an old case and it works correctly.

Cooler Master sent a new plugin module for the case and that did not fix anything.

It appears the case led cutoff threshhold is lower than the motherboard will go.

I tried a couple of different motherboards with the same results.

I finally installed the HDD in a Vantec drive caddy so I could see the drive activity.