lol, to be honets i never actully tried,coudlent be botered to get it out the cuboard thanks for the replys, i couldent remember which type needed modding, im all sorted now tho, thanks
ps. im on a crappy keyboard at the mo so my typing is screwed, tipped a cup of coffee all over my natural;(
Some AT supplies will not power up without seeing the load of the motherboard though. It's about half and half between AT's that will power without a mb and those that won't. Telling an AT supply is always as easy as throwing the switch, but at times they don't answer the call without a mb attached.
Most of the AT PSUs I've seen didn't have a switch on them but instead had a thick cable that required 4 wires to be connected to a high-voltage, high-current switch, and if the wires are connected wrong, you could create a direct short between the AC lines.
Do you mean connecting pins 14 and 15 of the ATX supply to make it run? Because connecting pin 4 to 5 would cause a short on the +5V rail.
Almost all the AT supplies I've tried wouldn't run without a load resistor on the +5V rail (between red and black wires), and it had to have pretty low resistance, like 3-5 ohms, which also meant it had to be rated for at least 20 watts to not get hot enough to melt plastic or sear skin.
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