led help

[The HopelessGamer™]

i wanna know how to install led strips by cablemod. im getting a kit and a second strip.
https://www.pccasegear.com/products/34418/cablemod-widebeam-magnetic-led-strip-rgb-kit-60cm

how do i they connect up? i want one on the top of my case and one on the bottom how does one do that with the 1 cablemod ir receiver box?

[The HopelessGamer™]

Publicado originalmente por Bad-Motha:

You make the Strips connect to each other. If you don't then you need a seperate Kit / Power Box.

https://files.pccasegear.com/UserFiles/CM-LED-30-M60KRGB-RK-l.jpg
^ Zoom In; notice the small 4-pin connectors next to the Remote; those are used for multiple strips, as a means of giving them all power.

Within the Case, be careful with them. Any exposed metal pin connections touch the metal case, that would expose the PowerSupply to Ground, not only forcing it off, but could damage it, not to mention shock you.

Ok cool! Now um. Iv ordered the kit magnetic 60cm strip and a second 60cm strip magnetic. 1 kit and a second strip. Do i just plug the strip into the IR box then plug that box into the psu?

Can i have 2 sata power cables running off the 1 IR box?

My plan was to have 1 strip up top and one down bottom so it lights it up equally. Can i not do that?

There is like 4 cables on the box what are they all for? Ik 1 is for the psu. The other is for the led strip but there is a sata power looking cable double ended And there is a round plug what are those 2 for? The double ended sata power and the round one?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

It should all be about as self-explanatory as it gets.

The LED-Strip plugs into the Power-Box the kit came with; that box plugs into your Power supply via 1x SATA power. It has 1x female and 1x male. So even if you are on your last sata power connector, you'll have enough, as it can pass-through to another device if needed. I'm not sure about the IR part, that should be an extra stand-alone wire that comes off the power box, so you can custom place the IR sensor.

Now there are various models, so pictures may not always reflect 100% what you get.
But judging from what I've seen/used, the one you linked, that power box has 2x separate connectors as a means of separating two starting points for your strips.

Like this:

[ 4pin connector ] -> [ LED Strip ]
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[ CaseMod Power Box ] -> [ Sata power adapter ] -> [ PC Power Supply ]
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[ 4pin connector ] -> [ LED Strip ]

With the 4pin connectors having a bit of wire length to them, so for example allow one to go to top of the case, and the other down to the bottom. For separation purposes.

Now most of those LED Strips are a good 12-16 inches long; plenty of length per strip.

[The HopelessGamer™]

Ok cool. Some of that made no sense to me but ill figure it out cheers! One last thing. My mobo the MSI B150A Gaming Pro Motherboard has rgb lights on the board itself how does one change the color? I need some kind of program? I cannot use msi afterburner does not let me extract it no matter what i do it tells me im not the owner of that file therefor cannot be extracted so thats broken. But there is a msi gaming app or something?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

For the Motherboard RGB lighting, that is software, yes.
https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/support/B150A-GAMING-PRO.html#down-utility

Install:
- MSI Gaming App (Motherboard RGB Lights Customization)
- Live Update (for updating your Motherboard BIOS/Drivers)
- Command Center (allows full system monitoring and control; such as temps, control over motherboard connected fans, etc.


MSI Afterburner is just for Monitoring, and GPU Control.
With the bundled RivaTuner, that can be configured to allow your monitoring, fps, and other options, to show up On-Screen, In-Game.
I would make sure that is up to date though:
https://www.msi.com/page/afterburner

[The HopelessGamer™]

Publicado originalmente por Bad-Motha:

For the Motherboard RGB lighting, that is software, yes.
https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/support/B150A-GAMING-PRO.html#down-utility

Install:
- MSI Gaming App (Motherboard RGB Lights Customization)
- Live Update (for updating your Motherboard BIOS/Drivers)
- Command Center (allows full system monitoring and control; such as temps, control over motherboard connected fans, etc.


MSI Afterburner is just for Monitoring, and GPU Control.
With the bundled RivaTuner, that can be configured to allow your monitoring, fps, and other options, to show up On-Screen, In-Game.
I would make sure that is up to date though:
https://www.msi.com/page/afterburner

I got the gaming pro app. Works well. I cannot get afterburner. It wont let me extract it to install it. You try it wont let you extract the second zip inside.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You need an App that can handle .RAR
The one WinOS has built in can't do that, that is only for .ZIP
All you need is install 7-Zip
Which is 100% freeware and handles mostly all of the common compressed file types.

Most do not use ZIP any longer.
RAR provides better compression; can handle compressing very large files (like ones above 4GB) and allows much more security options if you wish to use those.

[The HopelessGamer™]

Publicado originalmente por Bad-Motha:

You need an App that can handle .RAR
The one WinOS has built in can't do that, that is only for .ZIP
All you need is install 7-Zip
Which is 100% freeware and handles mostly all of the common compressed file types.

Most do not use ZIP any longer.
RAR provides better compression; can handle compressing very large files (like ones above 4GB) and allows much more security options if you wish to use those.

I was using pro version of winrar. As i said you try and extract msi after burner. Its in a zip inside a zip.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes, and it's working just fine for me.
Right click the original download and click Extract first.
Then do the same for the 2nd file.

The full structure is this (which I just tested on two machines)

> MSIAfterburnerSetup.zip
> 4.3.0 (folder)
> MSIAfterburnerSetup430.rar
> MSIAfterburnerSetup430.exe

If you are having an issue, redownload the file again.
It should have a new name, such as MSIAfterburnerSetup (1).zip
As the one you downloaded could be corrupted.

[The HopelessGamer™]

Publicado originalmente por Bad-Motha:

Yes, and it's working just fine for me.
Right click the original download and click Extract first.
Then do the same for the 2nd file.

The full structure is this (which I just tested on two machines)

> MSIAfterburnerSetup.zip
> 4.3.0 (folder)
> MSIAfterburnerSetup430.rar
> MSIAfterburnerSetup430.exe

If you are having an issue, redownload the file again.
It should have a new name, such as MSIAfterburnerSetup (1).zip
As the one you downloaded could be corrupted.

Then they must of fixed it since i tried it and it nvr let me extract the rar. I asked a friend to try it they tried it did not let them either.

[The HopelessGamer™]

So was it a yes i can have 2 led strips on the one IR receiver box running on 2 seperate sata cables?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

There is only one SATA cable, period. Is that the part you did not understand?

You given 1x SATA power to the box; not the strips.
The strips plug into the box.

[The HopelessGamer™]

Publicado originalmente por Bad-Motha:

There is only one SATA cable, period. Is that the part you did not understand?

You given 1x SATA power to the box; not the strips.
The strips plug into the box.

ok. i thought the sata was for the leds... not the box. sorry if im makking you frustrated. so the box plugs into the psu. the strip plugs into the IR box.

then whats the double ended sata power for? why is there a double ended one attatched to the IR Box. the cable on the right: https://cablemod.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/CM-LED-30-M60KRGB-RK-1-800x581.jpg
whats it for? i assume the round plug plugs into the IR box and the sata power double ended cable is for?

so i can only have 1 strip on the 1 box?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

The sata power plug is how you power the IR box from your PC PowerSupply

Yes the sata plug has a small rounded plug on the end for the IR box side power.

[The HopelessGamer™]

Publicado originalmente por Bad-Motha:

The sata power plug is how you power the IR box from your PC PowerSupply

ok. thank you very very much for helping me out!

i think i understand now.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Here, this help better?

http://imgur.com/a/NFOxT