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Tristan

01-12-2004 18:43

Radeon power adaptor

Hi all,

I purchased an ATI All in Wonder 9800SE on an online auction the other day. I want to test it to see if it's soft-moddable to a 9800 Pro (some are, some aren't) -- if it's not, I'll sell it on.

Unfortunately, despite the seller advertising it as "OEM", it comes with even fewer cables than the regular OEM version of this board -- none at all, in fact. Most importantly, I'm missing the power adaptor cable, meaning I can't even plug it in to test it.

So I'm appealing to all CF members: does anybody have a spare Radeon power cable they could pop in an envelope and send my way? Postage will be reimbursed, naturally.

Please contact me by PM if you can help.

Thanks in advance,

Tristan

Graham M

01-12-2004 19:42

Re: Radeon power adaptor

What "adaptor" are you talking about?

dilli-theclaw

01-12-2004 19:44

Re: Radeon power adaptor

The splitter cable?

Stuart

01-12-2004 19:57

Re: Radeon power adaptor

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tristan

If you do mean a power splitter, they do them in Maplin for about 2-3 pounds.. Not cheap, but might be quicker than getting someone to post one to you..

Tristan

01-12-2004 20:19

Re: Radeon power adaptor

Quote:

Originally Posted by dilligaf1701

The splitter cable?

I think it is probably a splitter cable, yeah. I've never owned a Radeon before, so I don't know. I assumed the board would just have a regular hard-drive (molex) power connecter, but aparently not, it's a funny four pin thing instead.

scastle, unfortunatley I haven't got a Maplin near me. I will have a look on their website though, so I can see what I'm after. Thanks.

dilli-theclaw

01-12-2004 20:21

Re: Radeon power adaptor

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tristan

My radeon does have a standard connector on it. Any chance of a picture of the connector?

keithwalton

01-12-2004 20:28

Re: Radeon power adaptor

Ati use 4pin molex's that connecter i'd presume is for somthing else, what exactly escapes me at present

altis

01-12-2004 23:54

Re: Radeon power adaptor

It looks like an ordinary power socket...

http://www.lanaddict.com/rev.php?ID=86

http://www.ati.com/support/products/...ng_Started.pdf

Tristan

02-12-2004 01:04

Re: Radeon power adaptor

Quote:

Originally Posted by altis

It looks like an ordinary power socket...

http://www.lanaddict.com/rev.php?ID=86

http://www.ati.com/support/products/...ng_Started.pdf

Thanks Altis.

Unfortunately the connector on this card is the custom four-pin one shown on page 10 of the PDF in your second link.

The card I have -- along with the adapter cable I haven't -- is shown here.

Does anyone have any idea where I could get one?

Stuart

02-12-2004 01:28

Re: Radeon power adaptor

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tristan

Are you sure it's not a floppy drive power connector? Looks a lot like on from that image. You may find them on the maplin site as well..

Tristan

02-12-2004 02:47

Re: Radeon power adaptor

Quote:

Originally Posted by scastle

Are you sure it's not a floppy drive power connector? Looks a lot like on from that image. You may find them on the maplin site as well..

You, sir, are a genius. Plugged it in and it worked. Although I feel I should have spotted it myself... :dunce:

Have some of the measly number of rep points I can give out.

Richard M

02-12-2004 10:00

Re: Radeon power adaptor

That's weird, only the 9700 series had those connectors - they switched to the standard molex connectors on (most of) the 9800 series.

Gareth

02-12-2004 15:04

Re: Radeon power adaptor

heh, very strange indeed. Good job it's all sorted now though.

Any luck with soft modding it, Tristan?

ps - why on earth weren't you asleep at 2:47...?

Bifta

02-12-2004 15:05

Re: Radeon power adaptor

Quote:

Originally Posted by Richard M

That's weird, only the 9700 series had those connectors - they switched to the standard molex connectors on (most of) the 9800 series.

The three 9700's I went through all had molex connections.

Tristan

02-12-2004 17:36

Re: Radeon power adaptor

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gareth

heh, very strange indeed. Good job it's all sorted now though.

Any luck with soft modding it, Tristan?

ps - why on earth weren't you asleep at 2:47...?

Because I'm an insomniac!

And no, no luck with softmodding it. No luck with getting it to work at all, in fact. Installing the latest Catalysts just rewarded me with a BSoD. Hell, there was even some video corruption on my BIOS screen. Basically the card was a dud, and will be going back to the sender as fast as the Royal Mail can manage.

:(

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