hi all

as a way to save power, i put another connector on an old Dell PSU. The PSU is 200W, and i'm running 1 400Mhz PII and 1 400Mhz Celery. I plan on putting suse linux on them and running F@H. I recently fired them both up, and got the same message from both computers- Kernel Panic- Could not mount boot partition. So, i'm reinstalling Suse now, i don't know if it will work. This project could work, could fail miserably. Not sure yet, just decided to make a log

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You could probably do it with a stronger PSU but I'm not sure if the 200W will be enough. Its a good idea though but I'm not sure if it will really save power (noticably anyway).

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well, not really as much to save power, more to just experiment with it.

yea, so if only like 100w is being pulled out of a 200w psu will only pull 100w out of the outlet right? so, it wouldn't really save power

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whatd you get an ATX splitter or something?

OEMs put the crappiest PSUs in they can. so using a 200w for two comptuers that both want a 200wer, it just wont work

maybe get an xconnect or puma or something super el cheapo it might work

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No way, 200W won't be enough.

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QUOTEwhatd you get an ATX splitter or something?

OEMs put the crappiest PSUs in they can. so using a 200w for two comptuers that both want a 200wer, it just wont work

maybe get an xconnect or puma or something super el cheapo it might work

no, i cut an ATX connector off of a dead PSU and put it on the PSU.

these are Dell computers and a dell psu, so i can't just get a more powerful one.

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If you were in the UK I would have sent you an old Eagle psu I have laying around.Saved you the bother.

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ok, so i installed suse on the 400MHz PII, and it is up and running, and right now am installing suse on the 400Mhz Celeron while the PII is idling. So, right now, it's stable with the one computer at load, just not sure if 200W will be enough to power 2 cpus at load

once i get F@H installed on both of them i will see if it is stable or not /ph34r.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="h34r:" border="0" alt="ph34r.gif" /> /ph34r.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="h34r:" border="0" alt="ph34r.gif" />

here is what it looks like, it's not pretty











just did a wee bit of research---
at full load...
PII uses about 12 watts
Celeron uses 24 watts

so a 200W should be enough to power it, they aren't power hungry

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well, for all of you guys who said it wouldn't work, wrong

both CPUs are at load, and have been at load for the past 2 days

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Originally posted by: TLH
If you were in the UK I would have sent you an old Eagle psu I have laying around.Saved you the bother.

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Do Eagle make a psu with 2 ATX connectors then?