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1478994 2021-07-29 22:10:00 I'd thought about that, but look at the picture. There is a large capacitor in the way of doing the overhang thing. I'm not sure what you mean by the last sentence.

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Every power supply Ive seen allows an 8 pin plug to be split in 2. The 2 halves just unclip.
That cap thing in the pic is irrelevant .
Split the plug in 2 (unclip) , you now have a correct 4 pin plug .

There are often other 6pin connectors on the Power supply, they are for video cards not mb .
You may be looking at the wrong lead ?
1101 (13337)
1478995 2021-07-29 22:59:00 Every power supply Ive seen allows an 8 pin plug to be split in 2. The 2 halves just unclip.
That cap thing in the pic is irrelevant .
Split the plug in 2 (unclip) , you now have a correct 4 pin plug .

There are often other 6pin connectors on the Power supply, they are for video cards not mb .
You may be looking at the wrong lead ?

Bingo! I did not know that, and yes it does split, although that is not obvious that it can. So I now have connected it all up and the potentially fried mobo does POST, which was the whole point of the exercise. So my Ali Express purchase is now redundant, but I suspect I won't be able to cancel it.


That cap thing in the pic is irrelevant
It is only irrelevant if you can't split the plug :)
Tony (4941)
1478996 2021-07-29 23:29:00 Whoops! That should be "It is only irrelevant if you can split the plug" Tony (4941)
1478997 2021-07-29 23:58:00 Bingo! I did not know that, and yes it does split, although that is not obvious that it can. So I now have connected it all up and the potentially fried mobo does POST, which was the whole point of the exercise. So my Ali Express purchase is now redundant, but I suspect I won't be able to cancel it.


You can cancel your Aliexpress order. As long as you are quick enough. Some vendors dont send for a few days while others will send the same day.

From their site:

service.aliexpress.com
wainuitech (129)
1478998 2021-09-08 04:52:00 Well my Ali Express order from 29 July arrived today. I'd basically given up on it as I'd never had any response to emails, but waddya know.
Of course I don't actually need it now, but it can add to my box full of semi-useless junk.
I notice that the item on the Ali Express webpage is now reduced in price to 1c.
Tony (4941)
1478999 2021-09-13 06:33:00 For the record, that's an inductor next to your connector, not a capacitor. Agent_24 (57)
1479000 2021-09-13 06:37:00 For the record, that's an inductor next to your connector, not a capacitor.

Thanks for that. That increases my PC mobo parts knowledge from 3 parts to 4 :)
Tony (4941)
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