The same like everyone but know answers like everyone pw, hhd, power led

Where the main sockets are (sata and power)there are four other pins on the right of the sata socket that seems to do nothing.i've seen it on other SATA HHd's but never been able to suss out what they do. i would like to fit a direct LED so i know when it is active with the RAID Ghost conection and e-sata 3 hyper drive .

it is wrote on the mother board... look in the front left hand cornor,youll see a bank of 8 sets of 2 pin conectors..the abriviations are...pw=powe swith..rs= reset ....pw led = front powere light...hdd led = hard drive led

Most Motherboards are made to only accept certain plugs in that specific spot! If you are trying to add something new like a new Fan or LED, or HHD and you need power you would have to use a 4 prong plug off the power supply, If your power supply does not have any more available plugs, Amazon.com or Newegg.com sells splitters!

Good Luck and Best Wishes!

Most of these problems are associated with an I.C. on the board that governs the HHD. Unfortunately, the chip gets pitted (overheats) on the GaAs and is ruined. The green light (LED) on the HHD will turn on as it is getting power but the main chip that controls the HHD no longer works thus rendering the HHD inoperative.

Bottom line, get a new external drive. Should you get the same model or something similar to what type of electronic hardware you have, you can remove the new HHD and put your old HHD in its place and you will see that all of your data is still intact.

Here is the diagram for your connection. It may vary but most probably there are names are written on the mother board for the connections



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hpe this helps.
hdd=ide
pwr led = power led

from the 1 pin that is single without pair..disregard that then put the pw button.. to make sure short it using a philips or long nose.. if you find the power on button...or just find first the power button by shorting the pins...

the sequnce are pw button reset button pw led hdd led..you just nid to align them to the power button..

hope i've help you..

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Those are really tricky and always vary from motherboard to motherboard.
without the exact model no one will be able to tell you exactly. But I'd recommend that you start out with the power (pw) plug and try trial and error. The only ones really necessary are the pw and reset. the only 2 that are polarity sensitive are the HDD light and pw led.

here are some sites that may help you.
all these should be marked power switch may say pw,prs,ps, power led may say pld, pl,led, hhd say hd, reset switch maysay rs, set, these connection will be grouped together, and pin layout 1 red or hot wire, or the main wire for the device you are trying to operate.
www.motherboards.org
www.tomshardware.com
www.twinight.org/chipdir/
www.anandtech.com

the connections to the back plate is standard the amount of pins match up the cable, the number 1 pin will be marked some how and or the cable will only be able to plug in one way.
with an exception if you are using serial connector and we hardly use them. the rules are the same as above, and plug ins maybe one way also.

the ribbon type will have a marking on the cable or ribbin line or dots or hasshs marks that is pin #1
match with pin out on motherboard pin1 or pin 0,

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Gateway's support site should have a nice diagram for you in your manual--they are also quite helpful if you have trouble locating it.