NEWBIE: Case connectors to Mainboard

Howdy!

"News" wrote in message
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Hey Jeff

He is talking about the Power LED whick blinks when the hard drive is in
use.

Err - no, not normally. Power LEDs light up when there's power
applied. HD LEDs blink on disk activity ...


He is NOT talking about a FAN LED!

RwP

"~misfit~" wrote in message
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And, incidently, reversing the polarity of a fan won't make it run in the
opposite direction.

It did on the last fan I tried. Granted that was several years ago.....

On 4 Dec 2003 22:53:11 -0800, (Wiley Q. Hacker) wrote:

Thank you all for the tremendous response. I tried BigJim's idea. I
did manage to destroy the flap at one end, but the middle flap was
fine, and it worked, thanks to the great suggestions.

That's easy to do. Best way is to slip a pin (I use a dental pick) to barely
slide between the plastic tab and the bent out jobber on the pin.
If it's a problem, you can usually use the pick to bend that part of the pin
back into the body of the pin.
If it ever comes up, for larger connectors like the 4pin Molex connectors for
hard drives, you have to either use the pick to bend the TWO sides of the pin
back into the body of the pin, or there are professional "pin pushers" with a little
handle and a thin metal tube specced for different size pins. You push the
barrel of the pusher in the front of the plug and it pushes the metal tabs back
into the body of the pin.
Out of curiosity, can you buy those little connectors retail? In the
Bay Area, for example, could I walk into a Fry's store and ask for
them? What are they called anyway?

They're called "little connectors".
Heh, not really.... maybe. I always got 'em out of bins marked with part numbers.
If Fry's doesn't have 'em, try a real electronics store like one that sells components
for TV/radio repair. That's where I get them, 50pin ribbon cables and connectors
to make SCSI CD cables, LEDs, micro switches, etc....
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Wiley

(Wiley Q. Hacker) wrote in message . com...
Hi all:

I'm working on putting together my first system. Almost done, with
considerable help from those on this forum. Many thanks.

One final question:

The Power LED connector from the case needs to be plugged into the
jumpers on the mainboard. However, the two "prongs" (sorry, can't
think of a better word, though I'm sure there's a standard) on the
mainboard are adjacent, whereas the wire from the case is 3-wide,
with a gap in the middle. Here's roughly what I'm talking about:

| ______
|-- | * |----------
|-- | * |
| |_*__|----------

Question is, can I just pull the wire out of the 3rd position on the
connector and push it into the middle one, and then plug the whole
thing into the mainboard? What's the right way to do this?

Thanks in advance.
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Wiley

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