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That Genuine Stank
Apr 25, 2004
I have just recently replaced my motherboard, cpu, and ram. After installing everything, it will power up no video. The most obvious thing amiss to me is that my old psu has only the 20 pin connector, no 4 pin to connect to the one on the motherboard.

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That Genuine Stank
Apr 25, 2004

Dr. Oetker posted:

The additional four pins are optional. If you want, you can buy a cheap adapter to go from 20 to 24 pins. What video card are you using? SLI?

Well that was what I thought, however I found a website that identified the extra power connector as the cpu voltage regulator. Which is required for some P4 boards. I have a P4 board.

I have also found that I can get an adapter that goes from a peripheral plug to the atx12v plug. I am considering that, however isn't the peripheral voltage only 5v?

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