Old PSU..

Ive just been given an old psu for a case mod idea, but im s**t scared about pluging it in... it rattles, and the screws have been taken out.

It has those molex (?) connecters on it, and another seperate black cable -- which has a really weird looking push switch / connecter thing on the end.

Do you think its worth my life trying to plug it in ?

xconspirisist said:
Do you think its worth my life trying to plug it in ?

if you suddenly stop posting, we'll know.

Yet another highly worthwhile post by orph. :rolleyes:

do you wanna piss me off, or just leave this as the funny stupid question you originally asked?

no one, asks the question "should i plug in a broken electrical appliance..."

no one, yet you spoke right up.

now lets just move on shall we?

i saw the humor in your post, its a shame you didn't see mine, cause only really stupid people plug in broken things in a wall socket, so you HAD TO BE telling a joke.

It is an AT power supply, you can't power modern motherboard with it, but it should be able to power drives/lights/fans just fine. Plug it in while it isn't in a computer or connected to anything, then press the switch on the end of the black lead. If it goes bang, well it was a broken PSU. If sounds okay then try it with some fans attatched to the molex connectors. I would have thought it will work fine. Thbe rattling noise is probably a wire rubbing against the fan inside the PSU, normally hitting it will fix this :smile:

On the other hand, if the fan spins and yet it doen't power anything, you can always open it up and score another fan.

The extra fan is almost certainly not worth the extra heat introduced by the extra psu

well question answered everybody.

xconspirisist was too much of a chicken to power the damn thing up so i payed him a visit today and took the thing off his hands. it works perfectly and the 'sticking out bare wire' which he believed to be a live 240 v wire ready to kill him is infact an earthing lead for the chassis.

so now i've risked my life to help you xcons, you can come and collect it :biggrin:

that was just entirely too f**kin' funny.... i think i pissed myself......HEY MOE!!! WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP.....NYUK NYUK NYUK!!!!!!!

Doc Brasso..... :dodgy:

Dr Brasso said:
that was just entirely too f**kin' funny.... i think i pissed myself......HEY MOE!!! WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP.....NYUK NYUK NYUK!!!!!!!

Doc Brasso..... :dodgy:

i was laughing as i typed my first response this morning too, till the dip-s**t rained on my parade.. i was kinda hoping for a very powerful breaker hooked to his wall socket, so he could receive a few minutes current before it finally tripped..

sometimes, i truly worry, is there just no f**king humor anymore.

i hear ya "O"....sometimes i feel entirely too old for my mentality.....whats that old saying?..."youth is wasted on the young..."

thanx for the laff tho, as it made my entire day...

****still chuckling profusely...

Doc B... :dodgy:

damn....had to read this post again, and im still laffin' my ass off.....wooooooo!!!!! cant get the visual out of my head....

Doc Brass.... :dodgy:

bollocks, thanks tom

btw, i said the switch would kill me, there is an earth wire off the switch you were talking about. btw, what is the switch MEANT to be connected to ?

It sounds like an AT power supply. The switch would then be the on off switch...

Do they make them anymore - at power supplys ?

Not sure. I don't think any new motherboards support it.

I think all motherbords nowadays are ATX I haven't seen a new AT for sale in a long time.

What's the official name for the Shuttle PC cases? Something like mini-AT or micro-AT or something like that?

Yeah, that's what I want.