New PSU, old computer. A power connector issue.

Kefir_Tribe

Kefir_Tribe

Kefir_Tribe

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Hi

I’m about to buy a new PSU to my rather old computer, because I need a more silent one. I think my choice will be a Zalman ZM360B-APS. There’s one big issue though. The power supply connector to the hard drive (and the cd/dvd?) on the Zalman PSU is S-ATA style and I have a Parallel ATA (IDE) hard drive. I’ve found adapters from S-ATA to IDE (i.e. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/SATA_Cables.html ) but I need the completely opposite and that doesn’t seem to exist. Is there a way to solve this? And if it is, are there any more possible PSU/mother board issues to look out for?

The computer in question:

Mother board: MSI MS-6511 (2 PCI, 1 AGP, 1 CNR, 2 DIMM, Audio, Video)
Processor: AMD Athlon XP, 1600+, 1400 MHz
RAM: 640MB SDRAM
Graphic card: Sapphire Radeon 9600 (a AGP card)
Hard drive: Western Digital (parallel ATA) 160GB

Regards
Petter
 
What, there are no molex [4 pin] connectors at all on the Zalman PSU? Are you sure you got this right?

If so, and the Zalman is without molex [crazy, it cant be true!] then I would imagine it comes bundled with SATA to Molex adapters.

SiriusB
 
I just did a quick check and i think you will find there are plenty of normal (4pin?) molexs that will power IDE devices like your HD's or OD's
 
Raj is right, if you look at the link provided in the full specification here there are 4 molex plugs(terrible diagram but nevermind) represented as P5, P6, P8 and P9. If you have more than 4 devices that require molex connectors then you might be better considering a PSU which is ATX 1.3 compliant only.
 
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