BadGoldEagle
Well-known member
Great to hear that it works as expected. The more I think of it, the more I think that the 'locked' behaviour must be handled by the logicboard. It must send some sort of repetitive signal to the PSU to tell it to start up.
The only thing I have left to do before kickoff is to select a proper new PSU. The VX450 has the fan on the top instead of on the side like the original PSU. That might cause a problem with cooling... I don't know how much the logic board draws but I doubt that'll cause the new PSU to overheat. The OG PSU was 303W, this Corsair is a 450W unit. I won't have to power 5 drives at the same time so I should be all right with my SCSI2SD and DOS card. The VX450 also does not have a 'monitor out' port, so I need to get a NO SPST relay to control that separately using the ATX's unused 3.3V rail.
@GeekDot I unfortunately don't have an LCR-meter, and my multimeter does pretty much everything but inductors...
The only thing I have left to do before kickoff is to select a proper new PSU. The VX450 has the fan on the top instead of on the side like the original PSU. That might cause a problem with cooling... I don't know how much the logic board draws but I doubt that'll cause the new PSU to overheat. The OG PSU was 303W, this Corsair is a 450W unit. I won't have to power 5 drives at the same time so I should be all right with my SCSI2SD and DOS card. The VX450 also does not have a 'monitor out' port, so I need to get a NO SPST relay to control that separately using the ATX's unused 3.3V rail.
@GeekDot I unfortunately don't have an LCR-meter, and my multimeter does pretty much everything but inductors...