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Turning on a PC power supply without a mobo
garnerb350:
:banghead:
I'm an idiot....LOL
fatfingers:
Your fans and coin door lights will do just fine with that PSU. I am doing just the coin door lights (well, and my marquee light) using a PSU.
garnerb350:
Thanks!.... :notworthy:
Trebeck:
Maybe I'll try the wall wart route. Thanks all.
vputz:
I once ran a bunch of "zombie" SCSI drives (+controller) in a raid array using a non-mobo PSU by jumping the connectors with a switch. It worked just fine for many months (and acted like it would have kept on working). Really silly-looking; I ripped the controller and drives from an old Dell server, but since the Dell PSUs are nonstandard (and I couldn't match the connector to the SCSI board) I had to have a regular PSU for the mobo and keep the Dell PSU running as a zombie for the drives.
Worked fine for months. It's probably overkill as mentioned, but you should be able to do it no trouble.