RESOLVED Testing Power Supply

AranyicAranyic Casstown, OH Icrontian
edited April 2005 in Hardware
Ok, I know there is a way to connect 2 pins on a power supply and start it up without hooking it to a motherboard. Anyone know what pins they are?

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  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited April 2005
    Should be the Green conductor and the black one next to it (or any other ground) on the ATX connector.
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    Antex has a power supply tester. I think it was like $9.00. Attached is a PDF of the tester, and which lines mean what (+3.3v, +5v, +12v).
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    Here you go Aranyic :)

    Please use a couple of fans to give the psu some load at least.
    This is a 24-pin, but the 20-pin only have one green wire as well. It doesn't matter which one of the black cables you use though. A ground is a ground :)
  • AranyicAranyic Casstown, OH Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    Ok thanks, ended up actually just having dell send new PSU, RAM, CPU, Motherboard & power switch :/. Yesterday was just one of those days. Came in and the coffee maker had overflowed so there was coffee all over the floor, then go to log into the system and the server is off and nothing would even spin up.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited April 2005
    OH noes not the coffee maker.;) There is still one here at the apt that no one is going to use.
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