Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS5 - LED Issue

Rozzy85 · 19 Jul 2008 at 15:12

I just recently got this board and evrything is working fine and it's great but it does this strange thing with the power and HDD activity LEDs. As soon as the computer starts to load Windows (I'm using XP SP3 32-Bit) the power LED begins to flash on and off every 5 seconds or so. The HDD LED seems to stick in the on posistion completely. It does this until I shut the computer down. They work fine until Windows starts to load and while I'm in the BIOS. Does anyone else have this board? I'm interested to know if anyone else has this issue. It's nothing major but it just seems weird and pointless. I've checked the BIOS for anything option for this but I didn't find anything. The LED leads are plugged into the right pins and I've tried plugging them in the other way.

Meronem · 19 Jul 2008 at 16:43

have you got them on the opposite headers on the motherboard ?

i.e, you have the power led going to the HDD header and the HDD led going to the power header ?

OLDPHART · 19 Jul 2008 at 17:02

Hi, have the same mobo GIG EP45 DS5 had a similar problem POWER LED constant, HDD only flashed when using DVD-ROM, was also using XP SP3 32bit. Since upgrading to Vista 64bit no problems.

RizlaKing · 19 Jul 2008 at 17:25

Also make sure you don't have dynamic energy saver on as that happens when that is on

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Rozzy85 · 19 Jul 2008 at 18:03

Oh, so that's what was causing it? I did have it on. :S It stays on when I turn it off so that solves that. Thanks.

The HDD LED is still constantly on though. I have checked the headers and the cable is definitely inserted into the right pins and the right way round according to the manual and the inprints on the board.

RizlaKing · 19 Jul 2008 at 19:24

Is it just the led is on but nothing is using the drive or is the drive constantly working which may be something to do with sp3 sorry i don't use xp so not up on what may or may not be in sp3 to cause it. If it was vista i would suggest turning off indexing but i don't think xp does that unless it was bought in with sp3.

thegoonden · 20 Jul 2008 at 09:16

Stuck drive access light is usually caused (apart from other things mentioned naturally) by a non-responsive device, it indicate a hung, or incomplete operation.

If you use SATA, it could be all sorts of things that have actually hung up, because it's an IDE access light not a SATA access light, so it's blinking is emulated by the motherboard (whereas, as far as I am aware, there's a physical activity signal on the IDE bus). Eg.....on an entirely IDE based board, the light will not blink for RAM discs....but on a board with SATA it will because it's just another drive that needs it's winking emulated.

It may also be a misconfiguration of jumpers on any actual IDE drives in the machine.