How many components can we connect to an "output socket"

spellbinder2050 · Mar 3, 2014

Just to be clear, my antec 850w truepower quattro's manual defines the peripheral cable I'm referring to as the following:

"6-pin output sockets, for use with the cable sets to power your drives
and other peripherals."

I've been running my PC since I built it three years ago with one of these cables going to 3 120mm fans and one 180mm fan. The three 120mm have blue LED lights (I have an Antec 900 case).

I don't really understand the technicals of the power supply, and neither the manual or Google are helping. The peripheral cable connects to the psu, as described by the manual, by a 6 pin cable with "12v2 Y" printed above it.

I was wondering if I could connect a molex cable (extension cable of sorts) to this peripheral cable and connect it to a solid state drive that I put in my case? Would this be too much power?

I actually did try this, and it worked, but then my USB ports stopped working. I'm not sure whether these two are related, but I'm trying to eliminate one thing at a time to figure out the problem.

Keep in mind that, other than the SSD, this cable only has the 4 fans connected to it. Could this have stopped by USB ports from not getting enough power to them somehow?

I appreciate anyone who takes the time to read this.

cin19 · Mar 3, 2014

1) The 6pin cable is for the GPU only.
2) You try to get one 4pin to SATA adapter for SSD ( Like this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812200061 ), but your PSU has more SATA cables, you don't need that adapter for the SSD.
3) What do you mean the USB ports? Is it from front panel? If yes, it may not get enough power.

spellbinder2050 · Mar 3, 2014

Thank you for the reply.

I think you're confused. The psu that I have has attachable peripheral cables, presumably to minimize case clutter. Every attachable cable that connects to the gpu has a 6 pin connection, but the other end of the cables themselves are broken down into 3 categories:

ones with 2 or 3 SATA connectors
ones with a bunch of molex type connectors for fans
Only two detachables with six pin connections for PCI-E graphics cards

None of this includes cables coming from the psu that are not detachable.

Edit: That converter you posted is exactly what I'm talking about.

Anyway, I plugged in a different keyboard and now my computer is booting fine again, but I'm afraid to plug my SSD back into the molex extension that attaches to my molex peripheral cable. =[

As described above, the molex cable I'm referring to has 4 molex connectors going to 4 fans. I'm not sure if I should attach a molex to SATA converter (that came with my psu btw) to this cable because it might not have enough juice coming from the power supply to power 4 fans and a SSD. I don't really know how this works.

Help would be appreciated.

cin19 · Mar 3, 2014

I know your PSU is the semi modular power supply, it should comes with the 8X 15pins SATA power connectors and 9X 4pins power connectors too. So I mean you don't need the converter for your SSD, you can use one of 15pin SATA. But you can use the converter too and it will work fine because your fans draw very small amount of power.

spellbinder2050 · Mar 4, 2014

OK. Thanks again. I plugged the SSD into the cable going to the 4 fans using the molex to sata converter cable as you suggested. Everything seems good so far. The usb ports are working and my Windows loaded without any problems.

Do you have any idea how to calculate the load of each of these cables coming out of my psu?

spellbinder2050 · Mar 4, 2014

Well, now my bios is not detecting the SSD, but I get a screen when booting showing "Asus Marvell Bios setup," which I'm assuming is to set up a raid configuration.

Should I start a new thread? :{

cin19 · Mar 4, 2014

You need install the Marvell SATA controller driver either from http://www.marvell.com/support/downloads/search.do or ASUS website, but ( I think ) your MB may be the intel system, check your MB manual to see which SATA ports are intel SATAII or SATAIII, then use them, don't use the Marvell one.

If your SSD is new one, and if the SSD is show up in the BIOS, then you need go to the computer management > disk management > format the SSD first, after that the PC will detect the SSD.

You may need go to change something like enable AHCI mode after installation. http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-enable-ahci-support-in-windows/

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