Thanks guys: That pretty much answers my questions although I wish someone
would have given me that advice before I changed the mobo if there IS
something wrong with the original Soyo power supply and I neednt have gone
to the bother of changing boards and figuring out all the connections, -
which arent (exactly) the same on the Asus as on the Soyo. But I dont
suppose the differences matter, - they all seem to involve connecting
peripherals such as additional fans which are already internal to the power
supply. And, yes, I WAS determined not to buy an ATX power supply which
had one of those connectors to the power switch on the front panel (so that
all I have to figure out is how to connect the 'jumper' to the pins on the
mobo)


"Rocky" wrote in message
news
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 00:40:10 -0500, "My father's son"
wrote:

Well having bought it I kinda wanted to know if it would work rather than
having to buy another which might well be the same (but at 83 times the
price): Do you KNOW htat Compaq s are non-standard ATXs? (It IS A rocker
switch on the back of the power supply module itself)

"LASERandDVDfan" wrote in message
...
Does anyone know if all ATX power supplies will work with Asus mobos?

As long as it is a standard ATX supply with the correct pinouts for the
ATX
feed plug, it will work. Asus and Soyo makes stuff that conforms to
the
industry standard, while Dell is far more proprietary than that. (One
of
the
many reasons why I opted to build my own computer rather than buy one
from
Dell
or Compaq.)

Whether or not it will work reliably is a different story.

Go get a new standard ATX power supply and try it out. If it doesn't
work, you
can always return it to the place of purchase.

Unlike the original Soyo power supply the Compaq doesnt have a power
switch
on it

And what kind of power switch are you talking about? A rocker switch
on
the
back of the power supply module itself or a long black cord with a
locking
pushbutton switch on it?

If it's a rocker swtich on the back of the module itself, then that's
likely to
be okay. Some ATX power supplies have this switch and others don't.

If it's the latter, then are you sure it's ATX? - Reinhart


If it is a true ATX power supply (monolithic plug), the power switch
on the front of the case plugs into the motherboard which sends a
power up (and then a supply good signal) to the power supply. The
rocker switch on the back turns off power to the PSU and thus to the
whole computer.

Your motherboard (Asus P3V133) has this connector in the 6th and 7th
position (from the ISA slot) of the panel connection closest to the
edge of the board.

If you want to test your PSU without a motherboard, you should connect
pin 7 to 6 ( green and black ). eg:

H
---------------------------------
|O|O|O|X|X|O|O|O|O|O|
u -- -- u u -- -- u u --
---------------------------------
|O|O|O|O|O|O|O|O|O|O|
-- u u -- u u -- -- -- u

The H is the clip for the plug, the u's mark the rounded pins on the
connector.

I have tried this and it does work.

Here is a URL for this:
http://modtown.co.uk/mt/article2.php?id=psumod

Rocky




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