20pin to 24pin power supply

[enclavesaga]

I have a 480w power supply, but it only has 20 pin. It fits into the 24 pin connector, but I feel there isn't enough power feed into the motherboard, which might be the reason of constant crashing. Is there any way to connect another 4 pin on top of the 20pin in that connector? I am thinking perhaps a 4 pin adapter connect to a separate cable from PSU, and squeeze it into the remaining 4pin? The circuits might not be the same though, any ideas?

 

[sswingle]

I setup a system recently without the extra 4 pins. Abit manual said to not worry about it unless there were several high draw PCI-E cards in the system (SLI video cards I figure). Although the board also had a standard 4 pin connector on it to use instead.

 

[Seekermeister]

http://www.electronicsoutfitter.com/store/84009/atx2024mf.html

 

[Zepper]

Adding 4 pins won't up the output available to your mobo (all the red wires in the ATX connector go to the same point in the PSU and on the mobo end - the same goes for yellow, orange, etc.) it will just spread it across more pins. Sounds like you need a PSU better suited to your system. You don't mention exactly what your PSU is and what exactly the mobo and other components are. Hard to diagnose an invisible patient...

.bh.