Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Wednesday 29 November 2006 01:18, Dale wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I just bought a new power supply. This is what I got: >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817159040 I notice >> that this thing has no -5 volt rail on it. Is this normal now? >> > > yes it is. -5V was only used by the isa slots. And without isa, there is no > need for -5V. So it was dropped in one of the many ATX standard versions some > time ago. If you have a fairly recent mobo without isa slots, you won't > need -5V. >
OK. That makes sense because I don't have ISA slots in this one. I do have some in a older setup though. I need to remember this. < writes note on hand > > >> I have this in my desktop rig with a Abit NF7 mobo, a AMD 2500+ CPU, 2 >> - 80GB IDE drives and one CD burner. >> >> I just want to make sure I'm not going to blow something up here. P/S >> runs quiet as a mouse too. Fairly heavy too. >> >> > > worst case, the box won't boot. But there is no risk of blowing up anything > (except when the PSU is faulty). You could ask the support of your mobo's > vendor if you want to be on the absolut save side. > Well, it booted up and ran fine. Nothing has smoked yet so I think I am going to be OK. Now that I have this, I have the start of a NEW rig. Plan to build a 64 bit rig next. May take me a while though. Time to do some research. I like building my own rigs. Since I am disabled that makes it interesting money wise. Thanks Dale :-) :-) :-)
