Nic lights mod.

**hawkeye177** · December 25th, 2001, 07:43 PM

Here is mine. There is a blue light and a blinking red light. The blinking red is for a 100mbps connection. And the blue is for activity. The blue light is so bright there is a blue circle in the other side of the room at night.

**Pshawn5** · December 25th, 2001, 08:22 PM

good job hawkeye..never thought of that

**hawkeye177** · December 25th, 2001, 08:35 PM

Thanks

**Praetorian** · December 25th, 2001, 08:37 PM

Would you mind explaining how you did it?

**Tachyon** · December 26th, 2001, 01:20 AM

Very cool!

I gotta do that on my next case.

Praetorian, Here is a guide on how its done.

-Tachyon

**Mike** · December 26th, 2001, 01:38 AM

Always was curious how that was done thanks for the link Tachyon, maybe i'll get around to working on doint that...

**hawkeye177** · December 26th, 2001, 02:39 AM

The most expensive part is the led's. It is very easy. It takes 10-15 minutes to modify a nic card.

**wyvrn** · December 28th, 2001, 01:11 PM

Cool.. now I don't have to look at the back of my computer to check my connection.

**Whir** · December 28th, 2001, 01:32 PM

Hey, what else can you connect to LEDs like that, aside from HDD and the on/off lights? That would be cool (in an 80s glam sorta way) to have like ten lights on the front that flashed randomly. Like 'supercomputers' or the computer banks on Star Trek. Woot!

-Whir

**ClubMed** · December 29th, 2001, 08:36 AM

Very clever idea, now all you need to do is find a way to maybe label them nicely

**JimG** · January 2nd, 2002, 12:12 AM

Ok, I read that article on VH a while back (probably the day it was posted). Anyway, I like the idea and want to try it. But I have a 3com NIC, and it uses Surface Mounted LEDs. According to VH's site, that's harder to do, and he doesn't go into it at all. Has anyone tried this, and if so, how do you keep the wire secure? Unfortunately, due to networking requirements, I have to use a 3com card, so I can't change it for a Linksys or Netgear (where this idea works a lot easier).

**storm2k** · January 2nd, 2002, 12:18 AM

? Unfortunately, due to networking requirements, I have to use a 3com card, so I can't change it for a Linksys or Netgear (where this idea works a lot easier).

thank god for cable modems and their unpicky requirements

**drojman** · January 2nd, 2002, 12:41 AM

that is cool! I used to try to look behind the computer all the time.. I have my hub sitting on my desk now... but that idea is cooler...

going to build a p100 into a linux router.. maybe I will put lights on for each net card...

**Kuasimodem** · February 5th, 2002, 11:01 PM

I did this mod on one of my systems already, kinda nice to know you have a connection without digging behind the tower to see the lights. The blue LEDs are mounted on each side of where the case emblem is supposed to go (waiting for TechIMO emblem

). The left one tells me it's connected, the right one flashes for traffic.

Case is an Antec KS-282+.