tiny voices :
Nuke, not a play on the stupid dress thing is that comment?
I see purple. The OEM LED was white actually. I believe the in line resistor went bad, not the LED itself.
Many purple leds are a red and blue one, I was asking if you can or can not see it because lets say my external hard drive looks like a blue bar next to a red bar instead of a purple led.
I have some blue leds that are slightly purple so it stands to reason they can make a purple led that does not "separate" when not look at straight on.
Did you have a line resistor on the power led? most of my cases did not have one, I always thought the board limited the current.