Need help right away(installing mobo)

[ScottyB]

I am installing my new p4 setup and i plug everything in and I go to boot up and it won't start. Then I look at the mobo and there is this 4 plug thing and I look at the directions and i shows them pluging in a 4 pin plug along with the regular ps plug and I can't find one on my ps (a 400 watt sparkle) all I have is a another rectangular one marked p2. What do I need and where can I get it, preferably tonight or tommorrow.

 

[ScottyB]

The picture says plug the 12V connector to the mobo, but I can't find one on my ps.

 

[TD77077]

Scotty,

P4 motherboards have a special 4-pin plug for the P4. These MBs require a power supply that specifies it is P4 ready. I'm surprised Sparkle makes a non-P4-ready 400w power supply, but it sounds like that's what you've got if you can't find a 4-pin square plug on yours.

You'll need to get one that specifies it is "P4 ready" or something like that on the box.

 

[ScottyB]

This is the ps that I had running on my 18 month old AMD setup

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

to right a "ghetto" thing up, you could look up the pinouts on the p4 power connector and chop up a molex and put hook it up to the plug manually
i think this may be possible

what mobo do you have?
usually asus has this ez plug or something which you dont need that p4 plug, just put a regular molex into the mobo and it works (its at a different place on the mobo however)

or i think maybe asus mobo's dont even use that, they get the needed power from the atx connector?
i cant remember exactly at the moment, its kinda fuzzy in my head 🙂