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muell67:

IM thinking of using a second power supply in my mame cabinet so I can hook the perfect 360 joysticks, the lights and some of the fans. My question is can I get a atx power supply to work without being plugged into a motherboard.

Goz:

Yes you can but you'd have to hook up a switch to short out two wires on the ATX connector.

Craig:

I thought many ATX PSUs needed a load first to give power to your devices? I would find a cheap $5 AT PSU off eBay.

muell67:

thanks for the tip on shortng out the #14 wire. When did power supplys start requiring a motherboard to operate? I probably could get a power supply from a old 486 would this work.

RayB:


--- Quote from: muell67 on November 25, 2004, 08:45:42 am ---thanks for the tip on shortng out the #14 wire. When did power supplys start requiring a motherboard to operate? I probably could get a power supply from a old 486 would this work.

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When Pentium 4's came out, "Pentium 4" style power supplies started to appear, that DON'T have an on/off switch on them at all. (Though maybe they appeared even before then...)



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