My Phanteks P600 case surprisingly doesn't include support for an HDD activity light - is this common with modern cases these days? I guess one option might be to connect the power LED connectors to the mobo's HDD activity pins but that'd mean the power switch LED surround would flicker. The case has a glass side panel so I've connected a plug-in HDD activity LED to the mobo header but it doesn't appear to work (the plug-in HDD LED was bought from Maplin more than 10 years ago and was never used so I dunno if it ever worked). I've had no luck sourcing a plug-in HDD LED indicator. Does anyone know where I can source a blue one? Any other suggestions? Thanks
Stupid question, is the LED plugged in the right orientation? I always use power switch LEDs for HDD these days as I have other ways of telling it's on - LED fans for example! I would have thought that blue LEDs shouldn't be hard to source (the bay etc.), usually people get rid of them as they're BRIGHT! Maybe put a wanted on the marketplace??
It is connected correctly and I've tried it in reverse in case the LED is incorrectly wired. I have RGB Memory modules so they'll provide a power on indication, so maybe I'll just use the power led connection for HDD activity.
Because it's an indication that something's going on when it seems that the PC has frozen, as sometimes happens when Windows is taking a long time to write to it's page file. I guess Phanteks and other case manufacturers think there's no need for an HDD activity LED, only Fractal Design cases still seem to have them.
Does the plug in led work on the power header? That would tell you if the hdd header is dead or the plug in led.
Not to be rude, but this isn't 1996. I haven't seen a PC hang writing to the page file for years. That behaviour went out when SSDs came in.
