Thanks for the advice.I bought a 400W PSU. Started up OK first time

- Tuff Test lite shows all VGA OK - only problem is Windows 98 won't
boot from the drive I had before.

Tried another HDD and that won't boot either.

Even tried booting from the CD ROM to install Sus Linux 9 and that
seemed to go into a void too

Is there some kind of a test probgam I can download to run from either
CD or floppie to check the board in DOS?

Thanks

TJ








Wes Newell wrote:
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 02:26:04 -0800, TJ Sackville-West wrote:

Suggestions please to rig power for the square 4-pin 12v
connection,
missing from the cabling from a CODEGEN 250X-1 250W PSU


Get an adapter cable from Molex to the 12v connector.

Have an MSI KM3M-V mATX board which has the square JPW1 (4-pin 12v)
connector to power the CPU. 2x GND & 2x 12v pins showing.

I don't know why this ATX PSU unit which is only 4-5 years old
doesn't
have the square pin for the CPU power supply. Maybe is too old and
the
new generation of CPU need direct higher power supply that the
20-pin
socket can provide, but I'm only putting on a Sempron 2400 so I
should
be able to tap off 12V from somewhere and run it in with the
correct
male fitting.

The 4 pin 12v connector was introduced with the P4, after your PSu
was
built. BTW, AMD recommends a 300W PSU minimum for the K7 line. But
I've
run a couple on 250W nits.

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