Thanks for the correction.
I looked at the fan, and it's a 12v one ... So, the ATA drive and the fan are running off the YELLOW, 12v wire ... not the RED 5v one ...
I may just forget it ... a bit afraid of fracturing the electrical system of a sensitive machine ... may blow something out that would end it all ... switching something on and off may cause a bad flux of some sort ... especially while the system is up ...
These ATA drives, by Seagate, are good ... but they don't last like my older Seagate SCSIs did ... and still run!
Best wishes.
On Friday, December 10, 2004, at 05:03 PM, Colin wrote:
Billy Car wrote:
So the RED wire is 12v (runs the ATA drive), and the YELLOW is 5v? I have a fan hooked up to the YELLOW one (apologies for using CAPS, I'm not yelling) ...
No, you've got it backwards. The red wire (+5Vdc) runs the logic board and stuff while the yellow (my 8500's is blue) wire (+12Vdc) runs the motors and such. It's that way on any computer's Molex connector..
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