Mystery buttons on PC

[Eichhörnchen]

Still need some ideas with this:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2399411&postcount=13369

I'm wondering whether one of the buttons switches you between DVI and VGA output?

[HunterICX]

Left:
top - PC Reset button
bottom - Turn LED light on/off

Right:
top - Hard Disk light (flashes when the drive is working)
bottom - I would suspect that's indeed to indicate the PC has power.

:salute:

As for VGA and DVI all you'll have to do is plug in the right cable in the right port on the back of the graphics card and the card should detect it automatically.

[Catfish]

Are these really buttons?
The LED with the cylinder icon surely indicates Harddisk action. So when the HD has to work to load or save something, this light should blink.
Why should there be a button to shut the LED off?
The "go around" button probably causes a barrel roll?

A real photo would be great :)

[DragonRider]

Left:
top - PC Reset button
bottom - Turn LED light on/off

Right:
top - Hard Disk light (flashes when the drive is working)
bottom - I would suspect that's indeed to indicate the PC has power.

:salute:

As for VGA and DVI all you'll have to do is plug in the right cable in the right port on the back of the graphics card and the card should detect it automatically.


Yes

Left hand side are buttons ............... Right hand side are lights
Reset button .................................... Hard disk working light
Case fans lights On/Off ....................... Case power Light


:salute:

[Rockin Robbins]

Still need some ideas with this:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2399411&postcount=13369

I'm wondering whether one of the buttons switches you between DVI and VGA output?
What is the model number of that Cooler Master bad boy? Their different towers have varying light/button setups.

[DragonRider]

If you click the attached pic you will see the LED and Buttons on a Cooler Master case hope this helps

[Eichhörnchen]

I'm going to post a photo soon, meanwhile...

@ RR, there's no data label anywhere on the casing (first thing I thought of, too) so I haven't been able to search for or ask about this particular machine.

@ DragonRider, thanks for that; the buttons are indeed present in your pic, second from the left and the last one (the two little led's and their symbols are shown in your photo as well).

[Eichhörnchen]

http://i.imgur.com/2OMfIXF.jpg

The big one in the middle well, even an idiot like me could guess what that was for

[Rockin Robbins]

Okay, that puppy is a Cooler Master Centurion 5 II mid-tower case (http://www.coolermaster.com/case/mid-tower/centurion-5-ii/). Your buttons from right to left are power button (the large one), reset button and front fan on/off for your blue LED 120mm front fan.

http://assets.coolermaster.com/global/upload/product_feature/C5II_feature_01.jpg

And that's a mystery. Why would you NOT want your front fan to be on all the time?:woot: Or why would you not use a 3-wire fan and let the motherboard control the throttle according to component temps?

[Eichhörnchen]

Thanks, RR you're a real pal for finding this picture... you might've just saved me from a lot of grief.

This is indeed the beast, and while there is a fan whirring quietly in the back, cooling the CPU, there is no glowing blue fan nor any kind of fan spinning around at the front as far as I can tell, but I'll need to make sure. The button which apparently should be turning it on and off (for whatever strange reason, as you say) seems to be doing nothing.

The PC is working just fine, but I guess this has to be gone into... your picture is going to be an enormous help when I email the dealer tomorrow, thank you :up:

Thanks to you other three for your help, also ... I know exactly where I'm at now :up:

[DragonRider]

Thanks, RR you're a real pal for finding this picture... you might've just saved me from a lot of grief.

This is indeed the beast, and while there is a fan whirring quietly in the back, cooling the CPU, there is no glowing blue fan nor any kind of fan spinning around at the front as far as I can tell, but I'll need to make sure. The button which apparently should be turning it on and off (for whatever strange reason, as you say) seems to be doing nothing.

The PC is working just fine, but I guess this has to be gone into... your picture is going to be an enormous help when I email the dealer tomorrow, thank you :up:

Thanks to you other three for your help, also ... I know exactly where I'm at now :up:

???? If the fan is there it will continue to spin the Button turns the blue lights on and off not the fan itself it may only control the rear fan in some cases :o

[Eichhörnchen]

Sorry, DragonRider... just me being dumb: of course you guys mean that this button just operates the fancy LEDs on the FAN (I'd thought you meant it turned off the little power and hard drive ones) I get it now.

I'm pretty sure I can hear a fan going at the front even if I can't see it; I don't much care if it lights up like a birthday cake so long as it goes around... maybe they fixed it to stay on all the while the power is on. Anyway, I shot them an email earlier so I'll wait and see what they say.

[Rockin Robbins]

Looked to me like the button turned the fan off and on and the fan is just your run of the mill 120mm lighted fan. They don't have separate wires for light and fan power.

Either way it's really stupid to put a fan on a switch. How do you know when you want it on? The motherboard knows and will throttle a fan to take care of the temperature, running it as slowly as it can at all times to get the job done.

If you are anti-Christmas tree, although I haven't seen a blue christmas tree since the 1980s:D, unlighted fans are cheap. Get a 3-wire one, plug it into one of the motherboard fan controllers, then connect the stupid switch to an air raid siren or something useful.:haha::haha::rotfl2:

[Eichhörnchen]

Now you've told me what it is, I've found no end of reviews online. The button IS there merely to turn the front fan's purdy lights on and off (two separate sources quoted below):

http://i.imgur.com/yeEvQCv.png

http://i.imgur.com/JkMdyga.png

Thanks again :yeah:

[Rockin Robbins]

Wow! They built their own fan for the non-standard wiring. Amazing that they would go to so much expense and trouble for a feature that doesn't mean a thing! It's a definite plus that the air intake is filtered though. That's a legitimate selling point.

Nice looking case too.

You know for playing Silent Hunter, I wouldn't mind a case all lit up in red. Nowdays subs use blue lighting in some instances, claiming that blue light is even better than red for preserving night vision. Saw that on a guided missile destroyer and it blew my mind.

[Eichhörnchen]

You know for playing Silent Hunter, I wouldn't mind a case all lit up in red.

Looks as though you can: http://www.xoxide.com/lightedfans.html


Maybe it's a hip-hop thing :hmmm:

[DragonRider]

Wow! They built their own fan for the non-standard wiring. Amazing that they would go to so much expense and trouble for a feature that doesn't mean a thing! It's a definite plus that the air intake is filtered though. That's a legitimate selling point.

Nice looking case too.

You know for playing Silent Hunter, I wouldn't mind a case all lit up in red. Nowdays subs use blue lighting in some instances, claiming that blue light is even better than red for preserving night vision. Saw that on a guided missile destroyer and it blew my mind.

Looks as though you can: http://www.xoxide.com/lightedfans.html


Maybe it's a hip-hop thing :hmmm:

These fans have been around for a number of years. They did have a separate wire that controlled the colour change or sequence the lights flashed.
I have a Thermaltake Level 10 case the LED control button allows you to change the colour of the lights through a sequence of Blue, Green, Red or a fast change patterned sequence of all three or a slow change patterned of all three or just turn them off.
Although I must admit I only use them at Christmas or if playing a lot of music :haha:

[Rockin Robbins]

These fans have been around for a number of years. They did have a separate wire that controlled the colour change or sequence the lights flashed.
I have a Thermaltake Level 10 case the LED control button allows you to change the colour of the lights through a sequence of Blue, Green, Red or a fast change patterned sequence of all three or a slow change patterned of all three or just turn them off.
Although I must admit I only use them at Christmas or if playing a lot of music :haha:
I had a red/blue/violet backlit keyboard from Saitek for ten years. It was a great keyboard and perfect for playing SH4 in the relative dark without killing my night vision for those evening ambush attacks. But for some reason my lighted fans and my external disk drives are lit in blue. Finally the electronics went out and it sent an autorepeated single letter to my computer until it crashed. Thought a reboot might fix it but no, it was the keyboard. Keyboards apparently don't have dying words, they have dying letters...

I agree with the modern navy that blue doesn't interfere with my night vision either. Backlit keyboards are presently in a $100 phase right now, so I'm not replacing the Saitek Eclipse II, which was the best keyboard I've ever owned. The typing quality of keyboards is steadily increasing though, as people abandon traditional ten-finger typing. I'm a dinosaur!:rotfl2: