hdd led probs

mryos · Apr 18, 2005, 03:56 PM

i have a gigbyte mobo model ga-k8ns pro with a syget stat hdd & 2 ide hdd's
the ide the hdd led woks fine with the ide but not with the sata hdd
is the a prog to show the hdd on the task bare or kan i connect a led to the hdd derectly

thanks
mryos

El Kapitano · Apr 18, 2005, 04:21 PM

The asus K8V deluxe had the same problem, I think you're outta luck on this one.

Just get the noisiest drive you can and then overide the quiet drive settings, you'll know when it's active then.

Sorry, unhelpful I know but Asus never did connect the sata HDD led up so I think Gb might have done a similar trick.

ChoGGi · Apr 23, 2005, 03:03 AM

mine works fine

its a k8v deluxe
i have two sata drives and two ide drivers on the promise 378 controller

El Kapitano · Apr 23, 2005, 10:53 AM

Do your SATA drives work the HDD led?

ChoGGi · Apr 23, 2005, 10:55 AM

yep all
could be they fxed in in an update for the bios?
i think i might have remembered it not happening before, but i cant be sure.

hey myros
if you have some guts run one of the HDD programs from a manufacter and disable AAM (advac. audio manag. or some such) on the drive, you should be able to hear it seek then.
BE CAREFUL DONT KILL YOUR DRIVE

Lethys · Aug 3, 2006, 12:18 PM

I have 2x SATA drives and 1x standard IDE CDROM.
My HDD LED worked fine when I got my SATAs and had been working fine for several months until I took my computer on a trip 100 miles from here to a LAN party, where I found my HDD LED was now permanately on. I also had issues with my SATA 10,000 RPM drive (C:\) which required me to disconnect / reconnect it's data cable to / from both the motherboard and the drive its-self.
Long story short, both drives work 100% fine, I even did a full scandisk + defrag, I disconnected / reconnected the HDD LED cable, I even tried reconnecting the HDD LED connector the wrong way around onto the motherboard which only resulted in the HDD LED being permanately off, this was to be expected.
Please can someone tell me what might have gone wrong and how to restore my HDD LED to its former working condition?

The_Neon_Cowboy · Aug 3, 2006, 03:28 PM

could be a deseign / bios issue...

Even the ATA to SATA adpater have connectors of the IDE led to be pluged in, My mobo
and my GF mobo both have SATA drives an the leds work fine.

H3X4D3C1M4L · Aug 3, 2006, 08:55 PM

My board won't show SATA device usage until there are no IDE hard drives...if there were its only the IDE HDD usage displayed

El Kapitano · Aug 4, 2006, 04:53 AM

Flippin' eck this is a blast from the past !