The transistor blew without the 80ohms resistor, and it is stopping the current feeding them, it's power source comes through the transistor, and when there is a power source going to its base the inverted circuit power flows to ground. Need to have a selectable point for ground because the way the chip is set up, you just have the ground point for all the LED's you want to control connected to a point on the chip, I was told that if I'm using an inverted circuit I should stop it being connected to the controller (going to a ground point on the motherboard instead of grounding via the chip).