I am trying to trouble shoot a possibly bad power supply.
What is the smaller 4-slot power plug on the motherboard for? (the reason for my asking is below)
slot A in this photo.
My PC was not powering up this morning.
the power supply has a flashing green light on the back.
when I removed the power supply and disconnected everything from the MB and repowered the PS, the light goes steady green.
figuring, what the heck, I plugged the longer power male back into the MB (I think it is called an ATX power supply) And a light went on and I was able to power up (sort of) at least the fan fire up and it made all the right poweringup sounds.
if I then disconnected though the power supply box from the mains power and reconnected, I could NOT get the unit to power up. (at this point I still had not connected the smaller square 4female slot plug).
So, the only sequence that allows me to sort of power up is:
- Disconnect ATX plug.
- leave the small 4slot plug DISconnected
- power up the Power Supply box
- plug in the ATX plug to the MB.
hit the ON button and it seems to power up. (though with the HDD attached it does not boot to Windows XP)
When however I then plug in the small 4-slot male plug it all just dies.
What does the square 4-slot plug power?
What is the smaller 4-slot power plug on the motherboard for? (the reason for my asking is below)
slot A in this photo.
My PC was not powering up this morning.
the power supply has a flashing green light on the back.
when I removed the power supply and disconnected everything from the MB and repowered the PS, the light goes steady green.
figuring, what the heck, I plugged the longer power male back into the MB (I think it is called an ATX power supply) And a light went on and I was able to power up (sort of) at least the fan fire up and it made all the right poweringup sounds.
if I then disconnected though the power supply box from the mains power and reconnected, I could NOT get the unit to power up. (at this point I still had not connected the smaller square 4female slot plug).
So, the only sequence that allows me to sort of power up is:
- Disconnect ATX plug.
- leave the small 4slot plug DISconnected
- power up the Power Supply box
- plug in the ATX plug to the MB.
hit the ON button and it seems to power up. (though with the HDD attached it does not boot to Windows XP)
When however I then plug in the small 4-slot male plug it all just dies.
What does the square 4-slot plug power?