First post, by ElectroSoldier
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- Oldbie
So my Precision 690 was retired quite some years ago now, but I pulled it out and Ive had it on the bench for a week or so while I was messing about with it I had a old guillemot card thats based on the Geforce 2 or maybe TNT2 or some such GPU.
Anyway that was fine while I was messing about with it to install Windows 2000. I believe the 5000X was one of the, if not the, last chipsets that had Windows 2000 support from Intel.
Ive a number of video cards I could put into it but those damn Dell PSU woes have stopped me from adding a card to it.
Ive some of the old 200 series cards 260, 275, 280, 285, 295 but they 2 6 pin PCie power connectors.
The last card I had in there must have been an 8 pin because one of the 6 pin PCIe connectors has an 8 pin adapter on it.
It has the 1kW PSU fitted and that has a number of connectors on it.
Each connector has a number printed on it in white:
P4 - 6 pin - 2 black, 1 orange, 1 red and 1 blue/yellow
P5 - 6 pin - 3 black and 3 yellow/white
P6 - 2 pin - black & blue/yellow
P7 - 2 pin - black & blue/yellow
P8 - 2 pin - black & yellow
P9 - 2 pin - black & yellow
P10 - 6 pin - 3 black and 3 blue/yellow
P11 - 8 pin - 4 black, 2 orange, 1 yellow and 1 white
All the wires seem to be plugged into something somewhere except the P4 - 6 pin which has never been used even when I got it new from Dell and Im left with the 2x 6 pin connectors P5 and P10
Do I use those two 6 pin connectors that are left over to plug into my video cards that have 2x 6 pin power connectors?