TSGL: New PSU - new connectors

[Tilman Brandl]

Hi,

Thanks to John + H Davis, for your great tips / diagrams etc.

Helped me making clear that there's nearly no chance to mix up connectors ... Per design one can't connect the plugs the wrong way. I'll still have to look more closely into my box ... there's a bad or missing connection somewhere. And as to the 6-pin plug serving the 12 V for the CPU: It's there, but there's also the proper 4-pin one, which I had used.

Thanks again
Tilman
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tilman Brandl 
  To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List 
  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