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Use Standard ATX Power Supply with Compaq Mobo
Hello All. I was searching on how to use a standard ATX power supply
with a Compaq Motherboard because my Compaq's Power Supply just died; and I found this forum. I found some information in the following post: http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messa...29/120374.html But it is still unclear to me on how to do it. I would like to use the 420W power supply that I have instead of the old 235W that my Compaq 5430US has. The atx power supply has a 20 pin conncetor and the Motherboard needs a 24 pin, so I bought an adapter but it doesn't work. Still no power gets to the motherboard. I know I have to re-arrange some cables from the power supply, but I don't know which ones. I have searched tons and tons of groups here at google, but no answer to my question, other than a few I've seen that said they tried to use a standard ATX with a propietary Mobo, Compaq in this case, but had no luck. Can anyone please give me some instructions on how to make the new power supply work with the Motherboard? I really don't have money to buy a new motherboard and throw this one out the window; or get a new power supply from compaq, which is $95 Thank you very much. |
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Look at some of the conversion cables they have at power-on.com or even a
replacement PSU that matches the Compaq Specs. http://www.power-on.com/compaq.html KC "marimol" wrote in message oups.com... Hello All. I was searching on how to use a standard ATX power supply with a Compaq Motherboard because my Compaq's Power Supply just died; and I found this forum. I found some information in the following post: http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messa...29/120374.html But it is still unclear to me on how to do it. I would like to use the 420W power supply that I have instead of the old 235W that my Compaq 5430US has. The atx power supply has a 20 pin conncetor and the Motherboard needs a 24 pin, so I bought an adapter but it doesn't work. Still no power gets to the motherboard. I know I have to re-arrange some cables from the power supply, but I don't know which ones. I have searched tons and tons of groups here at google, but no answer to my question, other than a few I've seen that said they tried to use a standard ATX with a propietary Mobo, Compaq in this case, but had no luck. Can anyone please give me some instructions on how to make the new power supply work with the Motherboard? I really don't have money to buy a new motherboard and throw this one out the window; or get a new power supply from compaq, which is $95 Thank you very much. |
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Thanks, I've looked there, but they don't sell any converters. I just
didn't want to buy another power supply, but use the one I already have. |
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Connector adaptors are all I see
http://www.power-on.com/connectors-adapters.html KC "marimol" wrote in message ups.com... Thanks, I've looked there, but they don't sell any converters. I just didn't want to buy another power supply, but use the one I already have. |
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My bad, I should've specified, sorry. What I meant is that they don't
sell Converters or adapters to go from a standart ATX power supply to a propietary design, such as Compaq's. Since Compaq uses different pinouts than the standart ATX does, an ATX power supply does not work. So that is why I was looking for a way to make a standard ATX power supply work with a Compaq motherboard. But no one appears to sell any adapters/converters that do the job. |
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