20 pin ATX in a 24 pin mobo

A mate has an Asus A8M2N-LA board in an HP base unit with a dodgy PSU

Board specs are here - HP and Compaq Desktop PCs - Motherboard Specifications, A8M2N-LA (NodusM)

I have a spare PSU (specs here - Translated version of http://www.oclabs.com/plistarticles.php?artpage=3&artcat=0)

The mobo has a 24 pin ATX power connector and a 4 pin ATX power connector.

The PSU has a 20 pin ATX molex, and a 4 pin ATX molex

Do I combine the 20 and 4 pin molex plugs and put them both in the 24 pin ATX power connector on the mobo?

Or

Do I plug the 20 pin molex into the 24 pin connector and the 4 pin into the 4 pin connector?

This is a temporary measure to test whether the board is fully functional, it will not be permanent.

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Originally Posted by mycarsavw

Do I combine the 20 and 4 pin molex plugs and put them both in the 24 pin ATX power connector on the mobo?

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NO do not do that

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Originally Posted by mycarsavw

Do I plug the 20 pin molex into the 24 pin connector and the 4 pin into the 4 pin connector.

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20pin into 24 pin should work 4pin atx to 4pin atx

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Originally Posted by Max Tractor

NO do not do that


20pin into 24 pin should work 4pin atx to 4pin atx

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Hehe I wasn't going to....he might have done though :D

Thanks.

I presume the 20 pin will only fit in one end/side of the 24 pin due to the rounded/square molex connections?

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Originally Posted by mycarsavw

I presume the 20 pin will only fit in one end/side of the 24 pin due to the rounded/square molex connections?

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Yes it should go in one way only

cheers

same thing happened to me mate i put the 20 in the 24 and the 4 into CPU slot and it worked fine though i advise you getting a new PSU for full stability which i recently did but you dont need to right now :)