PSU single rail adapter?

[Cerboeduki]

Hello,
I have a 1200w ultra x4 power supply, it only has one 12v rail, my mobo requires two. Would a 12v 8 pin y adapter work?

 

[rolli59]

Are you talking about the CPU power connector?
Adapter should work but most boards will run on onli 4 pins plugged into the correct position on the board.

 

[Cerboeduki]

Not sure. I'm not the greatest at this. A friend said I have two 8 pin 12v power cables off of my mobo and only one input on my PSU. It is a asus server board.

 

[rolli59]

Which board then I can look it up?

 

[Cerboeduki]

Z9PE-D16/2L

Thanks for your help.

 

[Guest]

you probs need something more like this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817338062

 

[rolli59]

Yes indeed it has two 8pin CPU power connectors and your PSU only 1 x 8 and 1 x4 so an adapter should work.

 

[Guest]

or run two psu with it

 

[Guest]

ahh lol i see... yea i'd also say an adapter should work fine.

 

[Guest]

nice review here

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=232470

 

[Cerboeduki]

Thanks for all the help, the adapter seems to be working. My ram on the other hand, not so much. Someone told me that I did not have to use server ram, desktop ram would work. I bought 4x8gb sticks, and am getting b7 error code. b7 is "nvram configuration reset". Does that mean I bought the wrong ram?

 

[rolli59]

You will have to have ECC ram.