Reply With QuoteI am pretty sure that you at least need to have the board plugged in to test a psu.
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I just bought a brand new power supply, at the moment this is all i have. I installed it into my case and plugged in the fans and tried to turn it on just to see if it worked, nothing turned on or worked. Does everything have to be connected before the power supply works, or is there somethign wrong? Thaks in advance.
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I am pretty sure that you at least need to have the board plugged in to test a psu.
Exalted Grand Master Geek
You need to have the ATX connector plugged into the motherboard and the power button connector form the power switch in the front of the case plugged into the motherboard PWR SW header.
To turn on an ATX power supply without a motherboard use a short piece of wire stripped of insulation on both ends. With the power supply plugged in and switch turned on, insert one end of the wire in the hole for the green wire and the other in any hole for a black ground wire in the 20 or 24 pin ATX molex connector.
Last edited by rond36; 09-20-2005 at 10:46 PM.
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Petitor Sapientia
rond, might you want to have the jumper installed before turning on the PSU power switch?? I'd be a little hesitant to be trying to aim the wire into the correct slot while the unit is "hot."
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Exalted Grand Master Geek
About $10 gets you a PSU tester like thishttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16899888901 from Newegg. You can also get them at a local shop or a good computer superstore.
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Petitor Sapientia
Very Nice!
Lighten up! --- A merry heart does good like a medicine. (Proverbs 17:22)
Exalted Grand Master Geek
It sometimes takes two hands to hold the wire in place and it is only +5V at 2 Amps
The unit is not hot until the wire is in place!
Lian Li PC-V2120X Black HPTX Full Tower
Antec TPQ-1200 OC Power Supply
ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS Dual LGA 2011 Motherboard
(2X) Intel Xeon E5-2690
32GB G.SKILL Trident+ Turbulence II (8 x 4GB) DDR3 2000
Areca ARC-1880ix-12-4G SAS 6Gb/s w/ 4GB cache RAID Controller Card
OCZ Talos 960GB 3.5" SAS 6Gb/s SSD
(4X) Seagate Cheetah 15k.7 600GB SAS HDDs
Pioneer BDR-205BKS Blu-Ray DVD Burner
(2X) MSI Radeon HD 7970 3GB GDDR5 Video Card
(3X) Dell U3011 30" LCD monitors
Win 7 Ultimate X64
Petitor Sapientia
Just checking Rond...I have a 5 SCSI disk storage tower that I needed to power separately. I used a standard power supply and jumpered it permanently so I turn it on and off using the PSU rear switch...works well...
I realize we're talking low voltage here...I guess I was just curious why you'd elect to jumper it hot rather than cold...
Lighten up! --- A merry heart does good like a medicine. (Proverbs 17:22)
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