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Jump start a power supply

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Mushroom Prince

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Just a quick question that may or may not be worth writing a thread about,


: in a PC, how would one go about jump starting your own generic power supply ? So where you could get all the parts inside of your computer power except the motherboard. My friend says he is trying to get a water cooling system installed and he wants to check and make sure all the stuff is running before he puts the motherboard inside.
 
You can start the power supply up all by itself by just taking something like a paper clip and connecting the green wire (there is only one) to a black ground wire (any one will do).
 
Ice Czar said:
you should also place a load on it
a HDD would be ideal
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Why do you need to place a load on it? :confused:

Is it hard on the PSU for it not to have some sort of load when it starts up?
 
Quite hard, if you're just seeing if it will start you'll probably be fine for a little bit, but SMPS sometimes will even burn up from running without load (although good PSUs will shut themselves off before that happens)
 
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