What's The Worst Case Scenario If I disconnect the PLED Wire?

[Jeff Kaos]

I just built a gaming PC in a DIYPC VT380-W case that looks great and has really good cable management and airflow. The problem is that the PLED lights are fairly large blue lights located on the front face of the case and when I shutdown my rig those 2 lights remain on and slowly pulsate. While this effect looks cool, especially when I'm playing games, I see it becoming old fast. And I don't know if I like the idea of my system drawing extra power when not in use; I mean that's why I shut it down in the first place. Interestingly enough those lights DO turn off when I put the system in sleep mode. While I'm not absolutely positive those are the power led lights I'm pretty sure they are and I'm wondering what's the worst thing that would happen if I removed the PLED wire from the pins? One other idea I had, which will probably be best, is to connect the PC to a separate power strip and just turn that off so the computer doesn't get any power when not in use. But I'm still curious about removing the PLED wire. My specs are below in case anyone sees something that I might've don wrong which is causing this issue.

CPU: i5 6600k
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR4 DRAM 3000MHz
MOBO: ASUS Z170 A
GPU: MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X
Case: DIYPC VT380-W
PSU: SeaSonic G Series SSR-550RM 550W 80 PLUS GOLD Certified
OS Drive: SanDisk SSD PLUS 120GB Solid State Drive
Gaming Drive: Seagate 4TB Gaming SSHD(Solid State Hybrid Drive)

 

[Jeff Kaos]

let us know if their support gets you a solution might come in useful for the future to know why its doing it

only ever had one motherboard where they had labelled the connectors wrong way round--but even if the pled were wrong way round labelled should just mean

pled shouldnt light up

Yeah will do. I was also going to send an email to ASUS support to see if they might have an idea considering that the LED control in BIOS didn't affect anything but the more I think of it the more I think that control is used for boards that have built in LED lights for effects and those are mostly the "Pro" boards which I don't have. But I'm not positive that the LED controls in BIOS are or are not supposed to control the PLED pins. The only reason I haven't contacted ASUS is that in order to contact them through email they need your underwear size. Seriously I never saw so many fields to fill out just to submit a support ticket you'll never hear back about. For instance one of the things they wanted to know was the board "revision". I have no idea what that is or how to find it. Fortunately they have a link that tells you how to find it; a link that takes you to a blank page. And I don't know what to make of DIYPC's support either. The first time I emailed them late at night and got a response with 15 minutes. Of course it was the basic "are you sure you didn't screw up" response but still it was nice they got back to me so soon. I sent them a second email with a lot more detail and it's been 24 hours with no reply. But I'm still hopeful since a lot of support emails take at least 24 hours to get a response to, if at all that is. Anyway I'll post anything I find out. In the meantime I've been putting the computer into sleep mode when not in use or I've been flipping off the PSU. But I also have some BSOD stuff to deal with that I think may be tied to my anti-virus program.

 

[madmatt30]

what happens if you power down by holding the case power button for 3-4 seconds??

 

[mcnumpty23]

usually model number and revision is on the board between the pci slots

or the mainboard section of cpuz might tell you a revision number

 

[Jeff Kaos]

usually model number and revision is on the board between the pci slots

or the mainboard section of cpuz might tell you a revision number

Thanks.