HDD led flickers all the time

musicman53 · 3 Jun 2006 at 18:08

Moved everything out of my Cheiftec into an Antec P180 V1.1
Hard drives are 2 WD SATA2 160Gb(same as before) and they are on SATA1&SATA2.
Only thing different nowis I had my DVD Rom and DVD RW on their own IDE cables and both were master.
Now they share one IDE cables as master&slave.
Before the hdd led did not flicker constantly(no disk activity)
It does now and as it's a bright blue one it's like a police car blue light flashing.
Anyone?

woodsy2k · 3 Jun 2006 at 20:02

What is your question?

Why is it flickering now and not before? How do i get rid of it?

Have you tried just letting it sit there, does it still flicker when there is no hard disk activity?

senorstealth · 3 Jun 2006 at 23:36

I've got the same case, same drive setup (though not WD's) and mines only on when the drive is accessed.

Which of the two HDD led flyers have you connected??

musicman53 · 4 Jun 2006 at 17:57

Does not matter what IDE led connector is used 1 or 2, it flickers when there is no hdd or dvd activity.
Read somewhere else of others having the same happen on changing to this case.

FreeStream · 4 Jun 2006 at 19:15

Erm, even if your not using it, there is still HD activety, mines on and off all the time (flash every 5-10 secs)...

Conc

Toytown · 4 Jun 2006 at 22:15

Read somewhere else of others having the same happen on changing to this case

Lol thats got to be one of the most stupid things i've ever heard. Its a LED for crying out loud, its got nothing to do with the case. It simply gets power via the pins on the motherboard and lights up. The case has nothing at all to do with it.

musicman53 · 5 Jun 2006 at 12:56

EXCUSE ME!
Like I said others elsewhere never had that happen til they changed to the P180.
And NO, it has NOTHIN to do with the CASE and everything to do with sensetive LED'S.

Toytown · 5 Jun 2006 at 15:33

everything to do with sensetive LED'S.

No offence, but its also got nothing to do with the LED's. If the LED's are still flickering that means there getting power from somewhere, its not the LED's fault if when it gets this power, it lights up.

Things change I've changed · 5 Jun 2006 at 17:02

I had this problem when i first upgraded to the antec p180, I must have spent about 1 week pulling my hair out trying to solve this problem in the end I found out it was due the sensativity of the LED, anyhow it bugged me so much that I just pulled out the LED cable.