[G4] G4 Power Supply

[John Niven]

Count the number of pin spaces on the power supply motherboard connector.

IIRC it's 20 on the eariler AGP and 22 on latter models. So you need the right powersupply for your motherboard.

John

--- On Mon, 9/22/08, shopdog at mac.com <shopdog at mac.com> wrote:

> From: shopdog at mac.com <shopdog at mac.com>
> Subject: [G4] G4 Power Supply
> To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Monday, September 22, 2008, 11:46 AM
> All:
> 
> I have an AGP Graphics machine (model M7824LZ/B).
> 
> It's upgraded with a 1.2GHz Sonnet processor.  It has a
> Pioneer  
> DVR-105 in it, and the original Zip drive.
> 
> Does anyone know how many internal hard drives it will
> support, power- 
> wise?
> 
> It has 4 power ports on the power cable for hard drives,
> and I'm using  
> 2 of those for 2 hard drives on the original IDE bus.
> 
> Will the existing power supply support 4 more IDE drives? 
> I can get  
> them in the chassis using 2 "Dual Drive
> Bracket"s, one each in drive  
> bays 1 and 2, and I can get them to communicate with the
> motherboard  
> via a PCI card (ACARD AEC-6280M) that has 2 IDE ports, but
> the only  
> way to supply power to these four new drives is to use
> Y-adapters off  
> the remaining 2 power ports.
> 
> However, I don't know if the existing power supply will
> support all of  
> this.
> 
> If not, can I use a Quicksilver 344W power supply instead,
> in this  
> machine?
> 
> Thanks for any advice anyone has...
> 
> shopdog
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