"John@Smith.com" <xxxxspud.RemoveThis@newscene.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 17:47:32 -0400, "Bruin"
> <bruinwarBLAH.RemoveThis@BLAHexcite.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>So I find the connector on my MB don't match my ATX PS connector.
>>Wonderful, they changed ATX to ATX2.0 & forgot to notify me.
>>I plugged it in anyhow, & guess what?! Everything works. Weird. What
>>the hell are those other 4 connections for? Can I continue to run like
>>this??
>
> Sure. At least thats what people say. They have a adaptor for it too
> but many say you dont need it and some say dont use it after some
> people burned their boards out with an adaptor. There are some people
> who insist that you arent supposed to use it w/o an adaptor or who
> tell you you must use one of the new PSes with the 24 pin but lots of
> people are plugging it in w/o either and they say it works fine. Even
> Antec says their older PSes as long as the output of course is
> adequate for the board is fine plugging a 20 pin into a 24 pin. It has
> to be all the way to the right , you can tell by the shape of the pin
> inputs which alternate shapes some partially rounded and some square.
>
Well thhhhank YOU for your reply. So far NP at all. WinXP loaded up just
fine, drivers, SP2, & of course HL2, & absolutely no issues so far. Still
think it is weird. As a matter-o-fact this machine has so far given not a
single hiccup, unlike every machine I ever built before.
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>> Stay informed about: GAH! 24 pin ATX!?!?!? 
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