On Nov 18, 2007 1:31 PM, Derek W. Keoughan  wrote:

> Slow day at the factory?  They had spare plugs to use up?
>
> If you use a pin, can you lift the plastic pin that's holding the wire
> in place, and remove it from the single socket, and place it in the
> empty socket on the one that has two?  Move the solo one into the empty
> spot on the other plug.  That way, you'd have three wires in one plug,
> and thus only take up one header on the motherboard.
>
> I often have to do this with Tyan motherboards - they usually have a
> 2-pin header for the power LED, while the majority of cases have a plug
> with 2 wires on the outside of a strip of three, with the middle one
> empty - so I have to move one.
>
> Hope this helps!

Hi Derek, Martin,

I unsuccessfully attempted to remove first one, then the other, of the
leads from a 4-socket female power LED with only the outer two
populated, in order to fit onto an ASUS M2N-MX SE motherboard that had
only two pins, #1,#3 on the end of a block, with #1 immediately
adjacent to a capacitor.
Eventually I resorted to using a pair of toenail-clippers, to split
off the two populated sockets, and individually connect them - which
looked pretty ugly, but worked!

Regards,
Mike
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