Is power LED connection essential?

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I got my Akasa case and the power LED header has a 3 pin female connector with the 2 wires on the 2 outside holes. My mobo has a normal 2 pin male header on it so I gather they won't connect proparly. Is the power LED essential for system to run?I haven't connected anything yet, still waitin for a couple of parts. Cheers if you can help
 
Only one that needs to be plugged in is the power switch tbh ... and not even that if u got a screwdriver.

One way around this is to take a Stanley knife or similar and carefully cut the plug down the length to seperate it so that you can get the 2 wired sections apart. Then you can plug each one of these on the connector.
 
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Aye thanks mate, I'll mod it sometime in the future to get it to work after I got system right
 
You can pull the metal jackets that 'plug' into the plastic connector so you can put it into the adjacent hole.

I have to do it quite often.
 
Looking back at the set of jumpers for the front switches/LEDs, the power LED is right between the power switch and the IDE connector so even if I do mod it like that then the IDE connector is in the way and the whole 3 pin header won't fit in the space.Hmm... I may strip off the solid header bit and use bare wire, probably do?

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wizardmaxx said:
Only one that needs to be plugged in is the power switch tbh ... and not even that if u got a screwdriver.

One way around this is to take a Stanley knife or similar and carefully cut the plug down the length to seperate it so that you can get the 2 wired sections apart. Then you can plug each one of these on the connector.
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That's seems like a goood metheod, I do that.
 
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wizardmaxx said:
Only one that needs to be plugged in is the power switch tbh ... and not even that if u got a screwdriver.

One way around this is to take a Stanley knife or similar and carefully cut the plug down the length to seperate it so that you can get the 2 wired sections apart. Then you can plug each one of these on the connector.
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Thats a very delicate job, but it will do the trick. Its not essential so its up to you if you choose to do it or not.

I wouldnt use a full on stanley knife though, to easy to slice the wires, try one of those stanley knife style craft knives, much thinner blades.
 
Nazbit said:
Thats a very delicate job, but it will do the trick. Its not essential so its up to you if you choose to do it or not.

I wouldnt use a full on stanley knife though, to easy to slice the wires, try one of those stanley knife style craft knives, much thinner blades.
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I can't say it is a delicate job, I found some wirecutters worked a treat...
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Lined the central (unused) part of the plug with the blades of the cutter and it seperated it brilliantly.

InvG
 
The power connect is usually "3 holes" "2 pins" so what I do is usually take out a pin using a small flat headed screw driver and move the pin to the correct hole on the connecter thats needed. Then if I change my motherboard that requires a 3 pin connecter I aint damaged it by cutting it in half. I just move the pin back to its orgional position.
 
Nazbit said:
Thats a very delicate job, but it will do the trick. Its not essential so its up to you if you choose to do it or not.

I wouldnt use a full on stanley knife though, to easy to slice the wires, try one of those stanley knife style craft knives, much thinner blades.
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I'm an architect student, got loads of those lying around ;)

Another question, what are the bare essentials of getting a computer to POST?

PSU
CPU
Cooler
GPU
MOBO
RAM

Anything else? Cheers
 
manoz said:
I'm an architect student, got loads of those lying around ;)

Another question, what are the bare essentials of getting a computer to POST?

PSU
CPU
Cooler
GPU
MOBO
RAM

Anything else? Cheers
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And a monitor to check its working :p
 
You don't need the monitor - assuming it's in a case/speaker you'll get a beep code, anything more than one beep and you've got a problem :)
 
Werewolf said:
You don't need the monitor - assuming it's in a case/speaker you'll get a beep code, anything more than one beep and you've got a problem :)
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Ah you have got me there, my case doesnt have a speaker so that didnt occur to me :p
 
Werewolf said:
You don't need the monitor - assuming it's in a case/speaker you'll get a beep code, anything more than one beep and you've got a problem :)
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Got a 7 inch LCD TV that I have hooked up to GFX, can just about see BIOS, gona go oxfam 2moro and pick a cheap CRT(for a tenner most likely)gona buy a TFT later.
 
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