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Old 30-Aug-2005, 11:26 PM
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can somebody help me plz, the wiring has 1 connector on one side and 2 coming out of it, the one with 1 connector goes on vid card itself, the other end goes to the power supply, but what the hell do u do with the other one, it' small with 4 small holes in it. there is only one spot where i can plug it but it's on the back of the floppy drive and power supply already connected to it. let me know if u guys now anything
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Old 30-Aug-2005, 11:51 PM
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I have a 9800 XT 256MB, and i installed everything myself built my own damn computer and i'm not too sure what your talking about...can you explain it a bit better?
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Old 31-Aug-2005, 10:57 AM
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see the connector on trhe top righ hand corner, the other end of it has 2 jacks, one i conected to power supply don't know what to do with the second one



see on the second pic the bigger one connects to the power supply don't know where the smaller one goes
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Old 31-Aug-2005, 11:14 AM
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nowhere. that's to give power to something else.

it's casual.
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Old 31-Aug-2005, 11:26 AM
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Originally posted by Bruce Fee
nowhere. that's to give power to something else.

it's casual.
yeah think of it as a y adaptor, its so it doesn't take up one of your power cables, thus splitting the connection so you can stil use that power for soemthign else
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Old 31-Aug-2005, 11:44 AM
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OO i see, thnx guys, card acting weird tho, playing cod online and every like 5 min it freeses for like 3 sec, and that's the only game it does it in, mohaa is fine, nfs underground fine
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might wana go to ati site and update the drivers, that might help

god luck!
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