A1200 EZ-Tower Problem (again)

[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.

[Vincent]

its the 10th wire along

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):

                                      Clip (in the middle)
Orng    Blu     Blk   Grn  Blk  Blk  Blk   Wht   Red  Red
Orng  Orng  Blk  Red  Blk  Red Blk Grey  Prpl  Yllw

The blue one is the 2nd/9th wire.

Is that the same wire as yours?  Also, the blue wire here does not give the -12v needed for this wire.

Does anyone actually know what this wire is for?  It does not need to be plugged in for the Towered Miggy to run.

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

[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!  :-)

[Vincent]

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

:-D excellent.  I'll do that later on, cheers.  Another person I owe a pint ;-)

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.

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 :-)

What I really want is PPC and graphix card :-D

[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-)