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Originally Posted by polobunny  ...Most power supplies are not made to run without their main connector plugged in. By shorting only the power on pins you're tricking it in thinking he's properly connected while he's not. It might be ok if you're using an old power supply to power fans or parts for a short period of time, but I wouldn't run half my system on that. | You bring up a good point I missed - I know why some would want 2 power supplies, and I agree in a home solution a single better supply might be better. I'm not gonna touch that.
I failed to mention that if you bridge a PSU to get it to run, It MUST have a draw on it or it will burn up. So, if say you hook it to hardware so you can multiboot off a different master drive (actually requires 3 PSU's), you need to make sure that if the PSU is powered up, something is drawing on it.
Of course, thats a silly example - you can multiboot with software, but the point is - don't start a fire! lol
Manta | 
November 11th, 2006
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