Please Take the time to read what I have wrote, cuz it seems PCs give me nothing but trouble, and I just wanna make sure i have everything covered with my problem - Thanks in Advance.
My current rig, is:
Athlon 64 3200+
Dual Sata II Socket 939 mobo (Asrock)
Jeantech 300W PSU, 1.5g ram.
Geforce LE 6800 128MB.
I recently bought some upgrades, from OcUK.
I bought a BFG Geforce 8800GTS. and a Akasa Paxpower 500W ATX 2.2 PSU.
My uncle came round yesterday to fit it all together. He built it all, and when he pressed the power switch on the case, nothing happened at all. At First we thought it was that we'd put the power switch plug in the wrong socket on the mobo, but it turned out it was right.
Later, as in today, we found out the reason as to why the new PSU doesn't work, and the old one does.
the Akasa 24 pin mobo connector, breaks off, giving you a second 4 pin, 12 Volt Connector, and it looks, like that particular 4 pin connector was built by a cabbage. Beacause it's Backwards. It doesn't fit the motherboard. on the 14 pin 12 Volt connector, there's two of the pins, that have rounded edges, and 2 that are square. my old, Jeantech 300W PSU, is top left, and bottom right (rounded pins) the 500W Paxpower, is bottom left, top right. and it doesn't fit. we read somewhere on the Asrock site, that they have their own thingymajig or whatever, and that it would work without the 4 pin connector actually connectoed, so we unplugged it, and presto it worked. But it actually turns out it didn't work, no signal was being sent to the monitor, and windows wasn't even getting to the post in the bios screen. (the beep sound) we tried, with different GPUS, and Both PSUs, and came to the conclusion that it is the new PSU thats incompatible.
Now i'm Back using my old setup, just barely. and the fan on my 6800 went ages ago, and it ticks constantly, and I have a big housefan blowing into the coverless case, and it sounds like a bloody lawnmower :s
Now thats explained, here are my questions:
Does ATX 2.2 mean it won't fit Normal ATX motherboards? and if so, why make the 24 pin connector, detachable into a 20, and a 4 pin.
Since the wiring is different on the akasa 4 pin, as it is my old 300W PSU, it seems that the plug wasn't made wrongly, or by mistake, it seems like it was meant to, and if so, going back to my first question, is ATX2.2 incompatible with Normal, standard ATX motherboards, Beacause it seems that the Akasa PSU is sold giving the buyer the idea that it's compatible with my motherboard.
and, finally, if it is, a new specification of psu to motherboard compatibility, it stands to reason there would be an adapter for it, such is with DVI to VGA. and if so, could someone post me a link.
Thank you guys, I really appreciate any and all help.
My current rig, is:
Athlon 64 3200+
Dual Sata II Socket 939 mobo (Asrock)
Jeantech 300W PSU, 1.5g ram.
Geforce LE 6800 128MB.
I recently bought some upgrades, from OcUK.
I bought a BFG Geforce 8800GTS. and a Akasa Paxpower 500W ATX 2.2 PSU.
My uncle came round yesterday to fit it all together. He built it all, and when he pressed the power switch on the case, nothing happened at all. At First we thought it was that we'd put the power switch plug in the wrong socket on the mobo, but it turned out it was right.
Later, as in today, we found out the reason as to why the new PSU doesn't work, and the old one does.
the Akasa 24 pin mobo connector, breaks off, giving you a second 4 pin, 12 Volt Connector, and it looks, like that particular 4 pin connector was built by a cabbage. Beacause it's Backwards. It doesn't fit the motherboard. on the 14 pin 12 Volt connector, there's two of the pins, that have rounded edges, and 2 that are square. my old, Jeantech 300W PSU, is top left, and bottom right (rounded pins) the 500W Paxpower, is bottom left, top right. and it doesn't fit. we read somewhere on the Asrock site, that they have their own thingymajig or whatever, and that it would work without the 4 pin connector actually connectoed, so we unplugged it, and presto it worked. But it actually turns out it didn't work, no signal was being sent to the monitor, and windows wasn't even getting to the post in the bios screen. (the beep sound) we tried, with different GPUS, and Both PSUs, and came to the conclusion that it is the new PSU thats incompatible.
Now i'm Back using my old setup, just barely. and the fan on my 6800 went ages ago, and it ticks constantly, and I have a big housefan blowing into the coverless case, and it sounds like a bloody lawnmower :s
Now thats explained, here are my questions:
Does ATX 2.2 mean it won't fit Normal ATX motherboards? and if so, why make the 24 pin connector, detachable into a 20, and a 4 pin.
Since the wiring is different on the akasa 4 pin, as it is my old 300W PSU, it seems that the plug wasn't made wrongly, or by mistake, it seems like it was meant to, and if so, going back to my first question, is ATX2.2 incompatible with Normal, standard ATX motherboards, Beacause it seems that the Akasa PSU is sold giving the buyer the idea that it's compatible with my motherboard.
and, finally, if it is, a new specification of psu to motherboard compatibility, it stands to reason there would be an adapter for it, such is with DVI to VGA. and if so, could someone post me a link.
Thank you guys, I really appreciate any and all help.
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Was really worried when you said you were gonna take the pins apart and replace them with ones from the old Jeantech 
and yep it certainly is a monster both in power and size