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Old 11th Feb 2010, 04:17
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MB main power connection. What's the extra 4 for?

The top 4 are not connected. The manual says use a 24 pin supply (if possible ?) Mine is 20. It is set to leave the right hand 4 spare.

There is a clear contradiction with the pin numbers. 1-4 or 21-24. Not that it matters at this time.

However...there is a plug hanging loose from the PSU marked 4P. It has the same shaped pin surrounds as the socket 4. No, I ain't going to plug it in...unless there is something I don't know.

The manual says very little about this, except to say that it goes to the CPU. Well, there's not really much chance that the CPU is without power right now, cos I'm typing this on the machine. But is there ever a supporting power supply where the board supplies one already?


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BTW. I used the W7 Snip tool. The .pdf pic was clear. This is a bit fuzzy innit? File was nearly 200k. Is the snip program prone to this?
Just looked at the pic in Snip again, and it's clear as a bell. One is puzzled.
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