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It's Christmas time.

I need more blinky lights. Preferably some that do more than just encourage Xmas beer ... err ... cheer.

There must be a PCI network card available that includes a couple of connectors on the PCB that allow you to plug in a case-mounted LED or two. That way you could watch the pretty blinkenlights for network activity without resorting to cleverly arranged mirrors.

Such a card must exist. Right?
 
If you want to break out the soldering gun, you could try this on one of your own cards.
 
Thanks Handy. I had considered that, but as all the network cards I see these days use tiny surface-mount stuff, I wanted to avoid any manual additions.

And besides, I'm surprised that in this age of back-lit, neon-lit, strobe-lit cases that network card manufacturers aren't using an external LED connector as a selling point on their various network cards.

Even that article mentions that there are some cards out there with this feature. Anyone know of one specifically?
 
Most motherboards come with built-in NICs; the folks who sell stand-alone NICs aren't really trying to appeal to the flashing lights crowd....
 
Also not what you were after, but I know my 3Ware cards have activity lights for each channel, that could be very festive on a RAID-5 array...
 
ddrueding said:
Also not what you were after, but I know my 3Ware cards have activity lights for each channel, that could be very festive on a RAID-5 array...
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... or even more hardcore solution would be to mod/hack pin 39. But it ruins the cable...

Cheers,

Jan
 
All you need are fiber optic connections to the 4 (or 2) LEDs on the NIC in order to bend the light emissions around from the back side of the chassis to the front.
 
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