Does anyone know if a power supply from a PC can be used as a seperate power supply to power up eg.a hard drive or DVD. When the power supply is powered up there is no voltage on the 4 cables that would normally fit into the back of a computer DVD. I believe that certain pins on the big 24 pin connector from the Power Supply that normally connects onto the motherboard can be shorted to enable the power supply to work, without it being connected to a motherboard.
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strip a spare piece of wire at both ends so metal or copper is showing, locate the green wire coming from main box to connector, insert one side of copper wire into green wire terminal, then loop any black wire by plugging the other end of the copper wire into any black terminal, if you have a switch on your psu its fine just power on and away it will go, if it doesnt have a switch you will need to split the loop from the green and black wire and put a switch between the split...
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Thanks Davemac82
Thanks Davemac82 for your prompt reply. I will give it a go tomorrow.Happy New YearComment
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