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Subject: Flickering Power LED Date: Mon May 20 2024 07:48 am
From: Barry Martin To: Ky Moffet

Hi Ky!

 >   >   KM> I dunno what, it's showing me a blank reply with no newsgroup
 >   >   KM> identity.
 >   > Well that's odd! Know I did a reply.  Was something about in that case
 >   > since the Power LED is a stand-alone doesn't seem to mean a problem
 >   > elsewhere.  Did answer via the BBS, not Thunderbird.
 >   KM> I knew it! You use invisible electrons!!
 > That probably explains the flickering LED: when the invisible electrons
 > pass through the light doesn't show!
 KM> ALL IS EXPLAINED!

My brain hurts!


 KM> Are you sure you can see the rest of the PC??

I might: if I look at the front I can't see the back.  ...Ah! A mirror!



 >   > What I'm going to do is create a back-up power light -- to me handy to
 >   > know a system is powered.  Have a USB cable from a dead mouse; dropping
 >   > resistor and LED.  Almost the most difficult part is to choose the
 >   > colour of the LED!
 >   KM> You don't need to go to that much bother. The LED should be on a
 >   KM> cable that plugs into the motherboard's front panel header. You
 >   KM> can steal one from another case or buy one for a couple bucks.
 > Y'mean I don't have to go into the basement, pull the box with the USB
 > ends, then pull the box with the resistors sorted in coin envelopes, and then
 > the storage drawer wth the LEDs in it?  <g>  ..Oo! I have some
 > infrared LEDs: those are invisible!!
 KM> Hmm. I take back what I said about superior laziness. <g>
 
<Acknowledgment nod of the head as a bow from the waist too much work!>

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