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First post, by Jackhead

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Hi,

i like to switch my old AT PSU for a ATX one. I bought me a adapter cable with switch. I read something that some Sound boards need the -5V. I used a AWE64 gold with a MPU-401 AT (yamaha daughter board installed). Did anyone can tell that both cards will work without the -5V ? I not really find information about it. Only the youtube video from Phil.

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Chris

Dos 6.22: Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 Rev 2.0 1Mb L2 - AMD A5x86 X5 ADZ 133MHz @160MHz - 64MB RAM - CT2230 - GUS ACE - MPU-401 AT - ET4000W32P
Win98SE: Asus P5K-WS - E8600 @ 4,5GHz - Strange God Voodoo 5 6000 PCI @ 66MHz PCI-X - 2GB DDR2 1066 - Audigy 2 ZS

Reply 1 of 3, by imi

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yes, neither needs -5V, the wavetable header doesn't even include -5V

idk if the MPU401 itself needs it, but I doubt it.
edit: ok found a picture of the back of the card, no contact point for -5V on the ISA, so it doesn't ^^

Reply 2 of 3, by Jackhead

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thanks!

Dos 6.22: Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 Rev 2.0 1Mb L2 - AMD A5x86 X5 ADZ 133MHz @160MHz - 64MB RAM - CT2230 - GUS ACE - MPU-401 AT - ET4000W32P
Win98SE: Asus P5K-WS - E8600 @ 4,5GHz - Strange God Voodoo 5 6000 PCI @ 66MHz PCI-X - 2GB DDR2 1066 - Audigy 2 ZS

Reply 3 of 3, by 386SX

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Lately I was thinking too that I might never need the -5V until I've seen the only 386 mainboard I got seriously acting strangely with an ATX psu without the -5V rail. Like crashes, vga output fading to almost invisible signal to the monitor and similar things.. things that disappeared with a -5V capable psu. So I suppose the -5V rail might be needed not only for some cards but in some who knows specific mainboard layout, components combination, more than just a useless obsolete thing. I might be wrong and maybe that PSU had problem, but I was using it before on a powerful P4 3,2Ghz machine and all values were ok in the bios reading, no components inside seems like failing. So I convinced myself of this requirement for such old machine.
Also another thing to consider which psu to use because it's not an easy choice. Some modern psu may not have the voltage stability of the main important rails that older had but older psu might have their problems cause becoming old (capacitors, mosfet etc..).
So it's not an easy choice imho.