There are pinouts available on the web, just check the voltages are within spec. http://www.hardwarebook.info/Category:Connector#Power_Supply
Specifically: http://www.hardwarebook.info/ATX_Power_Supply <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATX#Power_supply>I had two PS's stop supplying enough voltage to my video cards :( ---- Julian On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Anthony Q. Martin <[email protected]>wrote: > I have a DMM....just not sure where to hook one up at that would be safe. > Also, and more telling, the problem I have never seem to be related to > load...it can happen when the system is totally idle. > > I do think that my old UPS was bad, though. I had noticed a couple of > times where it appears my house had a power outage or disruption. The PC > seems to be cycling power. But turns out it was only my PC...the HT system > in his same room was not experiencing any problems and neither did any other > system in my house. So, after the last time this happened I finally hooked > up my replacement UPS, a 1250 VA (I think) Back-Up APS that's been sitting > in here well over a year. > > The problems seem to have happening a lot less after I reinstalled windows, > though, but they still seem to be happening. > > > On 1/14/2011 10:18 AM, Julian Zottl wrote: > >> Hook up a Digital MultiMeter (DMM - If you have one... if not, grab one. >> They are only $15) on the rails. As you add load (throw a bench mark up >> of >> some sort) the voltage on the rails should stay fairly steady. >> ---- >> Julian >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Anthony Q. Martin<[email protected] >> >wrote: >> >> How do you tell if a power supply is gone bad? I bought this Antec Neo >>> Power 650 Blue in September 2007. I can't see that I need more watts. It >>> has >>> 3 12V rails at 19A each, with a 5 year warranty. I have no real >>> indication >>> that this PS is the problem in my system, though. By the numbers I don't >>> think I need a new one. >>> >>>
