asus A8N-E power connector

deano · 26 Jan 2006 at 20:55

Hi,

just put my new machine all together

come to connect the power connector onto the motherboard and it's four connectors short :eek:

it's been a while since I built a pc

whats going on? have searched the OCuk site for a "EATXPWR" which is what the connector is called in the asus manual but it turns up nothing also searched on the forum as well and got nothing

any help or suggestions would be much appreciated as i was looking forward to getting my new machine running tonight

can i use the current connector? if so do i leave 4pins exposed at the top or bottom?

cheers
Deano

james32 · 26 Jan 2006 at 21:06

Read your manual you need a 24 pin atx PSU with adtional 4 pin conncetor

seems you have a 20 pin with 4 pin so you need to buy an addtional adapter
if you looked before buying you would have known that
all socket 939 and p4 775 need an atx 2.2 power supply.

deano · 26 Jan 2006 at 21:32

Hi

ok cheers, i'll read up more next time

any recomendations for these types of power supplies?

Cheers
Deano

james32 · 26 Jan 2006 at 21:34

what psu have you got? you can sometimes get away with using the 20 pin to 24 pin conncetor if you have enough amps on the psu rail

deano · 26 Jan 2006 at 21:49

Hi

it's a antec True480p 480w on the +12v rail it says 28A max.

cheers
Deano

james32 · 26 Jan 2006 at 22:10

should be ok if you havent a lot of input devices like 4 or 5 hard discs.