01-21-2007, 03:50 AM
Well, that was a lot easier than I initially thought it would be. The bundle of various wires and connectors on a PSU is pretty intimidating to look at, but it's not so bad after you realize that most of them won't even be used.
The only thing that made me nervous was that there was a cable that ran from the old PSU to something called "SFAN1" on my motherboard, but my new PSU lacked such a cable. I checked and re-checked my motherboard manual in all its glorious Engrish, and found that "SFAN1" was some kind of fan speed monitor thingie.
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I connected everything else and plugged it in anyways because I like to live on the wild side. I left the case open so I could be sure that all the fans were properly spinning just in case it was a power supply cable to a VERY IMPORTANT FAN. It obviously wasn't, because the case fan, CPU cooler fan, and northbridge fan were all spinning quite nicely. I checked with a diagnostics program (Everest), and it quite clearly showed the fan speeds and temperatures of everything. It all looks good. I'm still not sure what that cable was used for:huh:
The only thing that made me nervous was that there was a cable that ran from the old PSU to something called "SFAN1" on my motherboard, but my new PSU lacked such a cable. I checked and re-checked my motherboard manual in all its glorious Engrish, and found that "SFAN1" was some kind of fan speed monitor thingie.
I connected everything else and plugged it in anyways because I like to live on the wild side. I left the case open so I could be sure that all the fans were properly spinning just in case it was a power supply cable to a VERY IMPORTANT FAN. It obviously wasn't, because the case fan, CPU cooler fan, and northbridge fan were all spinning quite nicely. I checked with a diagnostics program (Everest), and it quite clearly showed the fan speeds and temperatures of everything. It all looks good. I'm still not sure what that cable was used for:huh: