Question 3 pin to 2 pin issue

[Kelait]

I have an older Thermaltake Armor case, it has a 3 pin front panel power LED connector, the wires are on the outside 2 pins. I just installed a MSI motherboard which has a 2 pin spot for the Front Panel Power LED connector. on the JFP1 diagram it identifies the Power LED as pins 2 and 4. How do I connect these two mismatched connector/slots. Is there an adapter out there somewhere? Do I really need to connect the Power LED? or is there another way to handle this? I have read through posts on this in the forums and am more confused than ever!

 

[bill001g]

If you don't care the easy way is to just not connect it. Most motherboards have massive amounts of led on them so you tend to always know when the machine is on especially since all cases also seem to have glass panels.

You can likely cut the connector with a knife so you end up with a wire with a single connector per wire and then you could put it on the proper pins. There likely is some kind of adapter but I bet they get way too much money for it.

 

[Kelait]

If you don't care the easy way is to just not connect it. Most motherboards have massive amounts of led on them so you tend to always know when the machine is on especially since all cases also seem to have glass panels.

You can likely cut the connector with a knife so you end up with a wire with a single connector per wire and then you could put it on the proper pins. There likely is some kind of adapter but I bet they get way too much money for it.

I wasn't sure if just not connecting it was possible, and yes the case does have glass and knowing it is running was not a problem. Thanks for the quick response!

 

[bill001g]

One of the last computer I build for someone did not even have led connectors on the front panel. The front panel connector positions corresponding to those pins do not have wires.