PSU Trouble

slyfer · 10 Mar 2008 at 11:57

Hi, I hope that this is the right place, I have the following psu, I need a new one, that has the same cables, as one that I got recently did not have the ones I needed. It is the 6 lead plug that is not present on new PSU I bought.
That's the cable with 3 black 2 orange and 1 red in the picture. The pc is a few years old, so I am not sure.

Thanks a lot for your helping me with this matter, thank you.

t31os · 10 Mar 2008 at 12:56

If you mean the 20 pin connector most new decent branded PSU's will support 20 pin connection (with 4 on the side that can be added for 24 pin motherboards), or worse case scenario you would need a convertor, which will only cost you a few quid.

slyfer · 10 Mar 2008 at 15:27

Hi, I dont think so, the problem is that the Motherboard has two sockets and the leads coming off the new PSU from ****** (power 400w PSU) don´t have the 2nd PSU lead.

The original PSU has a 20pin lead coming from the existing PSU and a 6 lead plug,

When I connect up the new PSU the PC boots up, but when I try to run anything it crashes. Therefore I am assuming that the Motherboard needs to have the extra lead coming from the PSU.

Am I correct?

Bales1983 · 10 Mar 2008 at 16:13

Hiya,

I take it you mean the 6 pin connector just above the ATX connector?

Whats the motherboard make/model?

Thats a 6 pin aux power connector usually on older dual processor server based boards (these required more juice in the 3.3v and 5v variety), you will struggle to find a psu nowadays with that as its obselete, you may get an adaptor somewhere though. Modern psu's are ATX 2.0, those old ones where 2.03. and the plug was removed on the new spec.

Lee