TSGL: New PSU - new connectors

[jonpan]

Tilman,

I reckon the reset button normally has a two-wire connection directly from 
the button to two pins on the MB. Is it possible you pulled these and didn't 
re-connect, or connected to other pins?I don't think it has polarity.
I'll send you a scan of the connections to a reasonably new MB K9VGM-V from 
MSI, so you can compare 20 and 24 pins.

John
Od/G

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tilman Brandl" <tbrandl2 at chello.at>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <List at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 11:33 AM
Subject: TSGL: New PSU - new connectors


Hi,

I hope anybody out there can help me:

I've bought a new PSU, the guy there told me it wouldn't be a problem to 
connect it with my ASRock Mobo ...

Unfortunately I found that the new PSU has other plugs connectors than the 
one before, where I'm talking about the 2 plugs fitting into the MOBO 
connectors only:

- The previous 20 pin main plug has become a (I believe) 24-pin plug. I've 
ignored the additional 4 pins on one side, following the color codes the 
cabling had on my old and the new PSU. This seems to work fine...

- the previous 4-pin plug has 6-pins now, while my mobo only has the old 
4-pin connector, of course. Here the colored wires didn't really help, I've 
just connected the 4 pins on the left hand side, leaving the additonal 2 
pins alone ... like that:

New plug, getting plugged into the mobo connector below ->
from PSU       =             connector-hook
                x    x    x
                x    x    x

to Mobo       _
                o    o
                o    o             old mobo connector

Only problem that's left apparently is that I can't (soft-)reboot my machine 
correctly, the reset button doesn't work as expected either. I have no idea, 
but guess it could be a problem with the above connectors. Any ideas 
anybody? Otherwise my PC appears to work correctly after a nondestructive 
repair from CD.

TIA
Tilman
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