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Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 29 November 2006 22:08, Mike Huber wrote: |
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>> By rail you mean a connection to the motherboard right? The power supply |
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>> itself has a 5v rail, which is delivered to the drives. Correct me if I'm |
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>> wrong, but that's my understanding. |
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> there is 5V and there is -5V. |
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> 5V is needed for io stuff (like the drives), -5V was used for the ISA slots. |
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> When the ATX standard was created, one of the 20pins/21cables was -5V. |
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> Since -5V is not needed anymore, it was dropped some time ago. The connector |
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> is still 20pins 'wide', but one of them is empty. |
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That's what I figured. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't going to |
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blow something up here. I sure do like this new power supply though. |
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Thanks |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) |
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