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  • Offline Liam

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Couple of concerns with new build
on: July 10, 2011, 00:54:43 AM
Hi All,

Been a while since I've been around & finally took the plunge and built a brand new rig! (Core i5 2500K, MSI P67A-GD53, GTX 570, 8GB DDR3, Cooler Master CM-690 II, 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12)

All has gone very well so far and it is running nicely, but I have a couple of concerns,

Ever since I built the machine the other night, the Power LED on the case constantly blinks on/off at one second intervals and never stays on solid. The HDD LED works fine accordingly when their is hard disk activity. I have tried google but nothing shows up suggesting if anyone else has had this problem. Despite all of this, the machine runs absolutely spot on and has done since day 1.

Another minor concern that I spotted yesterday while trying to restore data of a couple of DVD-R disks, the DVD-RW drive (Sony Optiarc AD-7260S) did not seem to like the disks and kept halting when attempting to read data on the disk, and I know it cannot be the disk as the same thing happened on the 3 DVD-R disks and also it did the exact same thing when trying to load the MSI motherboard CD and refused to read/install the utilities off the disk. I know something must not be right with the drive, as when it plays up with reading these disks - the drive makes a couple of loud sounds, you know - like when the laser is moving side to side trying it's best to read the disk? Strangely enough - when loading normal CD/DVD's like games i.e. COD and other driver CD's, the drive loads these and installs from them no problem.

Anybody got any ideas relating to these 2 worries?

Thanks all! :)

Liam



 
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Re: Couple of concerns with new build
Reply #1 on: July 10, 2011, 05:08:14 AM
I wouldn't worry about the LED if all is working fine, the CD issue, i have a similar issue with my work van, it will only read original cd's and not rips of mixes etc, but i think thats due to the top layer of the CD, the laser in the van seems to burn right through the surface of cheaper disks with shiny faces, the best CD's i have found for specific units are White Tops.
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Re: Couple of concerns with new build
Reply #2 on: July 10, 2011, 11:30:35 AM
So what do you think is best to do, request an RMA for the DVD drive from the place I got it from?

Thanks for the reply :)

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Re: Couple of concerns with new build
Reply #3 on: July 10, 2011, 13:36:31 PM
Quote from: Liam on July 10, 2011, 11:30:35 AM
So what do you think is best to do, request an RMA for the DVD drive from the place I got it from?

Thanks for the reply :)

Liam

Make sure its faulty first as for the sake of £15 drive vs return delivery costs it might be pointless if they deem it not faulty.
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Re: Couple of concerns with new build
Reply #4 on: July 10, 2011, 17:09:30 PM
Quote from: Bacon on July 10, 2011, 13:36:31 PM
Quote from: Liam on July 10, 2011, 11:30:35 AM
So what do you think is best to do, request an RMA for the DVD drive from the place I got it from?

Thanks for the reply :)

Liam

Make sure its faulty first as for the sake of £15 drive vs return delivery costs it might be pointless if they deem it not faulty.

I had the machine open earlier on as I had a bit of cable management to sort out and I realised that the DVD-RW Drive's SATA cable looked a bit twisted and un-ravelled it. Since doing this it seems to be reading the discs that it did not like from before. Hhmmm, I will keep an eye on it.

Thanks :) Liam
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Re: Couple of concerns with new build
Reply #5 on: July 10, 2011, 18:37:43 PM
Very odd that, it could have all been mere coincidence but hopefully that's fixed your problems for good :)
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Re: Couple of concerns with new build
Reply #6 on: July 12, 2011, 18:37:50 PM
Try updating the firmware on the DVD, and the Blinking LED sounds like you're on the wrong header.
What's the model number of the Mobo?
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Re: Couple of concerns with new build
Reply #7 on: July 12, 2011, 22:30:49 PM
Motherboard is a MSI P67A-GD53.

I've tried swapping the +/- leads the other way around on the headers and with them the other way around, the Power LED does not work at all.

I've also tried the leads in the other header panel, which is called something like JSP2 or something and the Power LED does the same blinking on/off again. I have also tried updating to the latest BIOS and this made absolutely no difference. Totally baffled to why the Power LED blinks and I'm out of ideas now  :dunno:

Google returns absolutely no results regarding this, which to me sounds like this problem is basically non existent, or hardly anyone else has ran into the same issue.

Liam
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Reply #8 on: July 12, 2011, 22:44:24 PM
don;t some m/b have a feature where they flash the power led at you as some sort of message signal or soemthing ?

I've seen the option before.... but never used it so don;t really know what it's for
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Re: Couple of concerns with new build
Reply #9 on: July 12, 2011, 23:19:35 PM
Quote from: knighty on July 12, 2011, 22:44:24 PM
don;t some m/b have a feature where they flash the power led at you as some sort of message signal or soemthing ?

I've seen the option before.... but never used it so don;t really know what it's for

That's one of the first things I thought. However, their is nothing in the MSI manual. The only thing that's related to the Power LED is a setting in the BIOS that is to do with changing the Power LED when the computer is in standby mode and to switch it to blinking or dual colours etc. I have tried by changing this regardless but to no avail and also changing the ACPI from S3 to S1.

Liam
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