A1200 EZ-Tower Problem (again)

[Radfoo]

Vincent wrote:
I got the instructions with the tower, but they're not very clear.  For example, nowhere does it say that you need to connect the green wire and the black wire together.  The instructions for the keyboard interface is also for a different version.

I have used a couple of EZ-Towers, i'm a bit woried about the green and blacks wires? I have never touched anything but the blue wire.

The scotch lock has 2 holes. One hole is a complete circle, the blue wire supplied with the tower should be fed through it. The second hole, a semi circle, this is for connecting to the blue wire from the PSU.

Hope that makes sense.

[Radfoo]

Vincent wrote:
Apparently the newer ATX PSU's need this wire to work.  

Weird, I just bought a new PSU from QuietPc. I still just have the blue wire connected. Perhaps this is becuase I have an ATX - AT adapter which does the same thing?!

This is the problem, as there is only one blue wire and it's on the same connector that plugs into the PC motherboard (two rows, with 10 wires on each row - 20 in total).  There is no other wire that's not got a connector on it.

Just checked inside my EZ-Tower, thats right, there is only one blue wire.  There is no reason why this cant be connected to the A1200 as well.

[Radfoo]

Have you connected the blue wire that I have described (actually on the PC motherboard connector) to the scotch-lock?

Yep, thats right, its the 10th wire along. I found it more convienient to place the scotch lock further up the wire, nearer the PSU.

To clarify further,

- There is only one blue wire on the ATX PSU.
- This blue wire goes to the ATX connector
- The extra blue wire that came with the tower is connected to the blue ATX wire with the scotch lock.
- The metal pin on the blue wire connects to the centra of your A1200 PSU.

[Radfoo]

Vincent wrote:

Hmmm, just looked at my connector and it's the 9th wire.  This is what mine looks like (looking at the sockets with the wires away from you):

Doh, cant count ;-) . Yes, its the 9th/2nd wire!

It is supposed to help if you have a heavily expanded Amiga, the floppy connector was never designed to power the Amiga. I guess it supposed to spread the load.

On a happier note: I've now managed to connect my monitor to the Miggy, and the SD/FF works!!!!!    

Cool!  :-)

[Radfoo]

Vincent wrote:

Well, how's this:
2 3.5" HDs (18Gb and 2.4 Gb)
52x CD-Rom (IDE-fix 4-way buffer)
Scandoubler/Flicker Fixer
Blizzard 1230 Mk IV 50MHz (as soon as I can get one)

It's not much, but it's a good setup :-)

I have never used it without the extra cable so I can not say for sure, however it is usualy the CPU that uses all the power (030's don't need much).

The extra cable certainly does not do it any harm 8-)