Is it standard practice to change the wireing on the power supply connecters?

[brbpab94]

I just bought a MSI K7N2 Delta2 motherboard and I have a cooler master power supply #RS-430-PMSR.I don't think the wires are in the right places because the 4 pin connecter is suppose to have 2 12v and two grounds and it has one black wire one yellow wire one red wire and one orange wire.I'm no rocket scientice but I think thats wrong.
Please help.
Brian

[Per Hansson]

Re: Is it standard practice to change the wireing on the power supply connecters?

Does it not snap onto the 20 pin atx connector then to make it a 24 pin connector?

[brbpab94]

Re: Is it standard practice to change the wireing on the power supply connecters?

yes it slides into the conecter but the manual for the mother board says the four pin conecter is suppose to have 2 12v and 2 grounds.I have 1 ground 1 red wire which is 5v one orange wire which is 3.3v and one yellow wire which is 12v coming from my power supply.

[Per Hansson]

Re: Is it standard practice to change the wireing on the power supply connecters?

I did not mean slide into the connector on the mainboard

I meant is it not possible to attach it to your ATX 20 pin connector to make that connector an ATX 24 pin connector?

[kc8adu]

Re: Is it standard practice to change the wireing on the power supply connecters?

dig into the tangle of plugs to find the p4 power
the one you describe is to be clipped onto the 20 pin to use on 24 pin boards.

[willawake]

Re: Is it standard practice to change the wireing on the power supply connecters?

why not post a pic?

[Tom41]

Re: Is it standard practice to change the wireing on the power supply connecters?

If in doubt, find some way of powering up the PSU without connecting it to a motherboard (use spare HDDs, CD-ROM drives etc. for load), and measure each pin's output with a multimeter. If the voltages you get in each place differ from the ATX specification, the wiring is indeed different!

I have a PSU like that; it was a non-standard shape, and used to power an HP Vectra P166 machine. Although it used an ATX-style connector to bring power to the motherboard, the pinout was different... enough to cause smoke if you connect to the 'wrong' board! I posted pictures of it in the PSU Build Quality Pictorial topic.

[bgavin]

Re: Is it standard practice to change the wireing on the power supply connecters?

Somebody mentioned that Dell uses non-standard pinouts on some of the PSU... dunno, but that is scary.

[Spacedye69]

Re: Is it standard practice to change the wireing on the power supply connecters?

I have a semi on topic question. What is the difference between the "new" 24 pin connectors and the "older" 24 pin for servers?

[pentium]

Re: Is it standard practice to change the wireing on the power supply connecters?

Hey how reliable is that board and what speed do you have it at right now?
I have one in my system and it's being a real dog.