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Rudski
05-01-04, 07:19 PM
I've been asked to upgrade a mates PC. He's got a dell Dimension 4550.
This usually isn't to hard but today I've found out the motherboard included in the dell machine has proprietary FrontLED configuration.
Most of the time a case has individual cables for Speaker, HddLED, PowerLED, Reset and PowerOn. This one has 1 big plug for all of them. And at the front of the case its got a circuit board for all the different LEDS.

So my question is this:

If I want to drop a new motherboard into this case what are the LED configuration on the proprietary plug?

Any suggestions would be great.

stockhatch
05-02-04, 03:09 PM
Ewwwwww...nasty. A friend of mine did this a while back. He had to track down a wiring schematic for the front circuit board and the MB plug. He said after all the time he spent cutting and splicing wires, it would have been MUCH easier to just buy another case.

AC

Rudski
05-02-04, 08:24 PM
yeah thats what i did in the end. I told him never to day dell and to buy a new case and motherboard