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  • Th3_uN1Qu3
    Believe in
    • Jul 2010
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    Too much booze, Christmas, dual PIIIs and power supplies...

    As you know from my other thread, EVENTUALLY the best solution for my dual-PIII (short of a custom PSU built from the ground up) was eventually found to be 2 PSUs in parallel. And i'd prepared a half-decent one for it.

    I also found a P6 connector wired with 18AWG. Just what i needed. I wired this to the secondary PSU including the 3.3v sense wire, and only left this and one SATA connector for powering the hard drive. Oh and the green wire for starting the whole thing up.

    After i quickly wired the P6 connector and the SATA connector (the 2nd PSU is supposed to power the hard drive as well), i had to go out. I had the usual lots of beer, but also some vodka & mountain dew on top of it. I came home at around 2.30AM, determined to start my dual-PIII up. I quickly finished soldering the dummy load for the 12v consisting of 3 10 watt resistors, 2 150 ohm and 1 120 ohm (at least the 2nd PSU should be spared of crossloading). At first the PSU wouldn't start up, i quickly found the short between 5v and ground despite the alcohol i had. I can still wield a soldering iron i suppose... Cleared the short, and eventually got 'er up and running. But i noticed 57C temps being reported by the case sensor which is installed in the GPU, it's never been this hot even in the summer. I touched the heatsink and indeed it was hot... Something had gone wrong.

    Went here trying to post this... and she crashed. Then came the fun part - either RAM or GPU beeps. Got everything fixed then was like "screw it, i need to get both PSUs to fire up at the same time, gotta solder that green wire". I don't know how but i got it done. Then, the infamous "INSERT BOOT DISK AND PRESS ENTER". Aw crap, my hard drive's gone south. Then my eyes fell on the SATA cable - it hand unplugged itself from the controller. I can consider myself one lucky guy. Plug it in... hit the power button, get into the BIOS... and wow. Dual 1.55GHz and counting. I made it. Hot damn. I made it. GPU now reads 36C so it was just a momentary thing.

    Merry Christmas to all... have less booze than i did, and always remember: When you're trying to do something truly special, you not only have the world against you, you also have yourself.
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