Question about Antec P160

[bounty29]

First off, I love this case. I just built my first computer and this case is amazing. All the drives have rails and it makes everything so easy, I don't know how a case could be better! :p But, there is one problem. I have no idea how to get the LCD on the front panel working. It is supposed to show the temperatures off of 2 sensors, but it isn't showing anything for me. Can anyone help me? The FAQ on the Antec site isn't very helpful, and a search of the forum didn't show me any solutions. Thanks for any help! :D

[Feuer Frei]

Do you manually have to connect the sensors?? Check if there are wires behind the panel.

- Fuer Frei

[Pntgrd]

Dumb question but has to be asked. You did plug the 4-pin molex connector to a power source, didn't you? And you placed the 2 sensors on what you want to monitor?

[bounty29]

As dumb a question as that sounds, that took me 2 days to figure out :p but yeah, I plugged that in, and I've also got the sensors where I want them, annnnd.... I have everything plugged in to the mobo except all the little individual plugs, I didn't bother with those they're just sitting behind my hard drive. I've pushed that little button that is w/ the wires, but I guess that's just supposed to change the readout from celcius to fahrenheit, but seeing how as it's not displaying anything, that didn't help.

[Pntgrd]

Well, if you have power to it it should at least read some temp. The things you did not hook up are for the sound and USB jacks, They will not keep the readout from working. Sounds like a bad display.

[bounty29]

Heh... sorry about that, when I plugged it in, I plugged it into a Y cable, and it just so happened that when I plugged it in, the cable came unconnected from the power supply :p

Thanks for the help though! :clap:

The Y cable was only connected to the front LEDs, so I didn't really notice that they weren't on. All is working well now, I just need to figure out where I want to put them. I've got one just hanging between the video card and the bottom of the case, and it's reading 28-29, and I've got the other one hanging right next to a stick of RAM, and that's reading 35-36. Any tips on where to put them? I'd like to have it monitor the processor temp, but I'm not sure how I would place it. I'm using and Abit IC7-G and I have a XP-90 on the processor (P4 2.4c @ 3.2)

[Pntgrd]

What I did with mine is this. Probe 1 is attached to the cpu fan and measures the temp of the air going into the hs/f unit. Probe 2 is attached to a 74g Raptor to monitor the hdd temp. It would be nice to show cpu temp but I don't know how you would do that. You can't really get the probe to the core without a bunch of modding the hs and heat-spredder of the cpu itself. Glad you got it working.

[TheRealSkot]

I've got one in the heatspreader, and one in the drive cage measuring the temp in the cage between two fans.

You can kind of see the drive cage one here

http://www.sputnikglobalmedia.com/computer/Komputermaschinesmall008.jpg

And the other goes into the spreader here.

http://www.sputnikglobalmedia.com/computer/Komputermaschinesmall009.jpg

Heres the full thread with more pics (http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=355154)

Also, if you have the windowed version, what did you guys use to get the scum off the window when you removed the protective plastic?