Recent content by mikeconic

Not sure if this changes anything, but the old external IS an IDE device inside, and the old HDD I have that I want to use as a replacement is also an IDE.

I have an old external hard drive and the drive in it is no longer working. I was wondering if I can open it up and replace the drive inside with an old internal HDD I have? It is just as simple as swapping them? Or will the enclosure only work with the original drive, or need some kind of...

I've seen quite a few posts on here in my research with people that actually have 3-pin connections FROM the front panel Power LED, and how they actually only have 2 wires in them, but take up 3 spaces in a 3 pin box, and most of them only had the 2 pin area on their motherboards so they need to...

I'm pretty sure they are not for an LED strip, the case does not have any place for them, and this motherboard definitely wouldn't supply a space for that directly on the Front Panel section. Like I said, they are both labeled as "Power LED" but have different names for the pins, and they are...

I have a Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H motherboard (manual at http:// ), and it has two separate places on it's front panel connections for the Power LED (page 15). One of them is labeled "Power LED" and the pins are "PLED+" and "PLED-", then there is another area also labeled "Power LED" and it has...

So I did some testing over the weekend. I did what you suggested in option #1 and set my fans to "Normal" in the BIOS and the rear switch to High. I then loaded a few HD videos and got my CPU usage up to 100%. My CPU fan increased up from 1150 RPM to about 1450+ RPM, but both case fans stayed at...

Thanks hwc1954, only problem is the fans are not able to be unplugged from their built in controllers in the case. The fans are already (and have always been) plugged into the motherboard. The fans have a wire going to their 3-pin connector, and another wire going directly into a switch in the...

I had changed the BIOS setting on the fans before, but nothing changed, but that was my fault because I didn't save and restart. I just changed the fans to "Full Speed" in the BIOS and after a save and restart the fans are now running at their advertised RPM and I can change them from Low to...

Is the first one "Reboot"?

I am building my first computer and I am having a problem with the case fans. Sometimes the fans (on High) will not start when the computer turns on, but I find that after a few minutes they will come on. The fans are very low when on "High" setting and stop spinning at all on the "Low" setting...