Bought a new case about three weeks ago; put the new PC into it last weekend. The case is one of ATop's silver ones, not sure of the exact model number. It comes w/ a window and four blue superbright LEDs on the front panel. My last comp tower was the *classic* BeigeBox; but I started wandering modding sites and realized what the attraction is! Blue ain't my colour, and I was pretty sure that soldering LEDs & resistors was within my grasp - it's been about eight years since I last picked up a soldering iron, but what the heck... Started melting solder when I got back home this afternoon, and it WORKS! I now have eight red superbright LEDs working, waiting actual installation! I didn't even cook one of the resistors, and I bought extra because I figured I would! For my next trick: a dozen red superbrights inside a length of clear tubing, stuck to the roof of my case. If the thing has a window, I might as well have something to look at! After that: one of the 5.25 panels is going to become my front plug/switch panel, with USB, audio plugs & light switches... But seeing those red lights actually flick on was cool, for a start!
Not a flippin' chance! I'm not going anywhere near my mobo with an iron! I did, however, finish the interior lighting for my case last night. 8 red superbright LEDs in two parallel circuits, with everything stuck to a length of 18mm wide velcro - which both provides the mounts & insulates the little bits of exposed wire from the case body... I was going to go with 12 superbrights, but after building two strings (8 LEDs) I figured that they provided more than enough light! Now I just need to scrounge up some male four-wire Molex to get everything connected...
Haha... LOL. Mobos aren't that special. Older motherboards we're overclocked by soldering in something near the CPU socket and shifting of jumpers. Now we can do most of this from BIOS. What a bliss.
its sooo easy, esp when like me ur using lead solder, and they ain't they are dealing with too higher temp to remove their stuff, so my wires go on easy. Don't be scared of doing stuff, after all how do you learn, no one will miss an old machine ne way! (most uni's give away P-200's to save them been re-cycled, so just practice on stuff like that). the eayest way to damage a board, is to break the SATA conector, much easyer to break those than soldering badly, but sata's design was kinda naff imo.
Ah, but that's the problem, we're talking about my month-old A7N8X-E Deluxe. I haven't even paid Visa for it yet, there's no way I'm risking it! My old box is on its way to a friend to work as a Kazaa "server", so nuking it is out too! That I'll keep in mind; am planning on getting a big SATA drive later this year!
Yeah, it's a male plug sticking out of the board without much support. A little leverage could snap it right off. Thankfully it wouldn't be hard to fix, or replace if you needed a new one.
