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Questions/mysteries regarding my new CM Stormtrooper case.

post #1 of 4
5/7/12 at 10:50am
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I'm in the process of finishing my first build. I'm using the CM Storm Trooper case. I was about to complete the cable management on the back and close things up when I noticed at the back of what I'm guessing is the SSD hot-swap bay a green board with a male 4-prong molex plug and a SATA plug. Are there supposed to be cables coming off of these plugs??? If so, why doesn't the owner's manual mention that. If not, what are those plugs for?

A somewhat related question: The hard drive activity light is never lit even though the 2-pin IDE_LED is plugged in correctly. Is there a wiring issue with the font panel of this case??? Also, is there supposed to be a 2-pin system power LED (PLED) coming out of the front panel? If so, I sure can't find it.

I don't want to finalize the assembly of my system only to find out later that there are some issue that will require my tearing it apart.

Thanks a lot! Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
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post #2 of 4
5/16/12 at 11:05am
The panel is for the hot-swap. You need to connect a power cable and a regular sata cable to it, then other side to the motherboard. AHCI also needs to be enabled in both Windows and the motherboard bios.
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post #3 of 4
5/16/12 at 7:50pm
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Thanks a lot for the info, especially about ensuring that the AHCI is enabled in both the motherboard BIOS and Windows.

What about my second question: "The hard drive activity light is never lit even though the 2-pin IDE_LED is plugged in correctly. Is there a wiring issue with the font panel of this case??? Also, is there supposed to be a 2-pin system power LED (PLED) coming out of the front panel? If so, I sure can't find it."

Again, thanks a lot,
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post #4 of 4
10/18/12 at 4:37pm
THE CASE HAS A DIFFERENT FRONT PANEL WIRING SETUP, THE NORMAL LED PLUGS ARE CONTROLLED THROUGH THE BLACK 4 PIN MOLEX POWER

CONNECT THIS AND THE FRONT LED CONTROLS AND FAN ON OFF WILL WORK!
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CPUMotherboardGraphicsRAM
Intel Core i7 3770K Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti Hawk OC 950MHZ 1GB Kingston Hyper X Blue Genesis 4X4GB DDR3-1600 
Hard DriveHard DriveOptical DriveCooling
Kingston Hyper X 120GB SSD WD 1000TB 7200rpm Black Drive Asus DVD Burner Corsair H60 CLC 
OSMonitorKeyboardPower
Windows 7 64 Bit Acer 24" LCD Razor Black Widow Ultimate Corsair Pro Series Modular HX650-watt 80 Plus 
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