Thanks for the reply! I did contact Athena last week and they kindly came back to me but apparently they no longer make the adapter and it’s EOL.
I will have a read through that other link you’ve posted, thanks a lot I am grateful.
Can I use any standard ATX power supply with the adapter cable on a Dell Dimension 4100 or is there a specific set of PSU's that I need to stick to?
sluml0rd wrote on 2023-10-26, 02:09:Can I use any standard ATX power supply with the adapter cable on a Dell Dimension 4100 or is there a specific set of PSU's that I need to stick to?
Standard ATX psu with adapter should be fine...see this post for details Re: A Permanent Solution to the Dell 'Fake ATX' Power Supply Problem?
.legaCy wrote on 2018-05-05, 00:17:I usually get a 20 to 24 pin ATX adaptor and rearrage the cables and there is also another molex connector.
Its is kind of tricky to remove the pins to re arrange but it is cheap and works.
Worked fine for me.
Can you share how this is done?
I tried this on a Dell slot 1 motherboard - moved the ATX connector and desoldered the extra power connector, and it worked great. I moved the pin in the ATX connector from -5V (since most ATX power supplies don't provide this anyway) to the missing 5V pin while I was at it. Turns out it's even possible to flash the stock Intel BIOS to get rid of the Dell logo at boot, too.
Apologies for the slight necroposting, but I just wanted to say that after a while pondering on this one I finally dug out my Dell Dimension L800CXE and did the same thing.
The original PSU exploded in quite a spectacular manner when I plugged it in one day, and after making funky adapters myself and not being happy with it I ended up just swapping out the connector.
Here's the board "post surgery": You can see the extra 5 pins below the 20 pin where it used to be, and I removed the AUX Power Connector above it.
Funnier still if you look to the left, there's outlines on the board suggesting where the 20 pin should go depending on where it's destined to go!
Here it is all plumbed in and running, it is still missing the extra pin but it seems fine for now. I plan to order some pins and finish it off soon just to be on the safe side.
Complete 98 rebuild with 512mb RAM, 1ghz PIII and a Geforce FX 5500 PCI GPU, it games really well and had much fun with buddies playing Unreal Tournament again last night!
Apologies if this has been answered and I missed it, but I've cut off both the fake ATX and 6 pin from a dead power supply and id like to convert them into an adaptor for my dell 4100 motherboard. Is there any guide to doing this, or at least a picture available showing all the voltages for the 6 pin? I have zero experience soldering.
I'm sure a guide existed but can't find it today, best I could find is this
which is from this post
https://msfn.org/board/topic/184851-dell-auxi … er-not-fitting/
The project requires little to no soldering but the stakes are high, get it wrong and you'll fry the motherboard
Thank you Chinny42! With that thread, I was able to find everything I was looking for! Normally I'd not be so risky because I'm a complete amateur, but I had a spare PSU and 4100 mobo, so I took a plunge off the deep end and went to work with a a 24-pin to 20-pin ATX adapter, some wirecutters, some heat shrink tubes, and a heat gun to shrink them. It worked!!!
Using the contents of that thread and a standard psu pinout image, I put together this image guide for myself and any other person in my position. Just keep in mind this was only tested with a Dell Dimension 4100, and I barely know what I'm doing, so use it at your own risk.
