Another mystery that needs solution

[InCreator]

Well, few weeks ago I bought a new case (chassis?) for my computer. With neat LED display mounted onto case which is supposed to show temperatures for processor, HD and system overall, changed with switchable button.

Since I made the buy, I haven't seen a single display from the LED. I connected almost every piece of wire and read motherboard manual enough to make its pages soft like toilet paper is. Well, no luck yet.

There's two types of wires still disconnected and I have no idea where to stick them.

First case:
power wire, exactly like the one coming from CPU cooler and other fans - power cable with small white end.
Since there's no fans on front panel of case, I have no idea why there's this cable. I tried to insert it into "system fan" and "additional fan" slots on motherboard, neither changed anything. There's no more places to fit it into.

And second case - the real mystery:
There's also three black wires coming from front panel which end with strange orange-colored thingy. Transparent piece of plastic with a wire inside. It's hard to explain so I drew it.



There's three of them, and each one has a label, "CPU", "HDD" and "SYS".
Now, It's pretty obivious that they're someway connected to the LED. But they doesn't look like they could be plugged anywhere!

If they were just some "protectors" erm... (crappy english) these things that burn out instead of burning whole system in case of errors in electric circuit - as they actually seem to be - why were they attached to 40cm wire then?

I also tried to photograph them, but my camera hates them as much as I do, and refused to focus onto them - it focused on anything else, leaving THEM blurred. Well, here's the pic anyway.



1) How do I get my LED to work?
2) What are these three damned wires?

Since I probably get no responses to this thread, I'll keep trying to solve the mystery.

P.S. The case I bought had no documentation, no well-known name and not even link to manufacturers website, so no help there.Ã, 

[Ghormak]

With neat LED display mounted onto case which is supposed to show temperatures for processor, HD and system overall, changed with switchable button.

There's three of them, and each one has a label, CPU, HDD and SYS.
Now, It's pretty obivious that they're someway connected to the LED. But they doesn't look like they could be plugged anywhere!

Putting 2 and 2 together, I'd say those are thermometers.

But I don't know how to set them up, sorry. Maybe you just get to put them anywhere you like and then... jibble with it.

[InCreator]

I thought so at the first. But if they WERE thermometers, my LED should show some numbers, even without them placed anywhere.

[Kweepa]

They look like thermometers to me.
Maybe you have to turn the thermometers on in the BIOS.

As for the white connector, it's probably for a fan that you don't have - say a fan on the North Bridge, which usually has a big heat sink on it rather than a fan.

Steve

(For your terminology, "protector" = "fuse".)

[InCreator]

Mystery becomes clearer...
Google'ing more....

Yeah, "fuse". That's what I thought and meant, and I KNEW the word, as every adventuregamer knows - from millions of games having fuses as inventory items. It's just my bad memory... I'm getting old, I guess.
But they are not fuses.

They ARE thermometers, or to be more precise, "sensors" as they are called more often.



Damn, I'll promise to never buy latest technology anymore. It's easier to delay few years and then just ask random guy how and what.

Now I'm having hard time to figure out how to get BIOS recognize this crap...

Currently, it seems impossible. Some old AWARDBIOS on my motherboard, no setting seems to be right one and for the ones I'm not sure about - are enabled anyway.
Maybe update my BIOS?

[LGM]

Updating your BIOS would be a smart idea. If you know what manufacturer made your mobo, then go to their site and search the model.. Then you can get the latest BIOS version from them. Good luck and God speed.