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- From: doctor@k9.UUCP (Paul Broe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: HELP! HD LED Light not lighting ???
- Message-ID: <doctor.018i@k9.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 09:20:52 GMT
- Article-I.D.: k9.doctor.018i
- References: <1992Jul22.220651.16391@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <BrtCqq.K82@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: You have to be kidding...
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- In article <BrtCqq.K82@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dvsg0223@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David Salamon) writes:
- > varmart@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Reji Martin) writes:
- >
- > > It seems that my LED light is not functioning on
- > > Hard Disk access anymore. Does anybody know if this
- > > indicates something further is about to happen to
- > > the Hard Disk or is this just the fact that the LED
- > > is burnt out.
- >
- > You don't say what machine you have, but I assume you have your HD light on
- > one of those little PC boards in the front of the machine. After repeatedly
- > taking off and putting on the cover to my A3000, I noticed that my power
- > LED stopped working even though the computer was okay. It turned out to
- > be a tiny crack in a trace on the little PC board that left the LED without
- > power. I patched it with a small piece of wire and all was well.
-
- I would also check that the cord to the LED is connected at both ends. They
- can become disconnected fairly easily. If the LED is burned out, you would
- probably have smelled it. I burned out an LED once (around 1980 or so) and it
- wasn't a pleasant smell. :-)
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