Cold Cathode Horror Story


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okay, i bought a green cold cathode light to go in my case.. put in a window kit in my transucent case and it looked badass in there.. 3 months later i flipped the swith for the light and - *FLASH* the light goes out and my comp goes down... ouch. burned up a 350w power supply in that moment, but i was being optimistic.. put in another power supply, maybe everything else was okay? nope. fried board. so i sent out for an RMA, bought a new board... turns out the AGP slot was screwwed on that so now i'm waiting for my 3rd board in the last 2 weeks :) thing is.. once i get it in, i want light in there again!! but i've learned my lesson.. i want the light to be powered from outside the computer power supply.. one that just plugs into the wall and has a switch out there.. i'm not wasting $400 more for a $15 light to burn me again.. anyone know where i can an outside-power-sourced case mod? maybe a site that sells them? otherwise i'm gonna have to rig something up. any other case mod gone bad stories?

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just get a normal psu and on the mobo molex wire the black and green wires together(you can put a switch in between if you like) and then your psu will run without your mobo!the specific wires are as follows

O O

Bl O

B<-- B

G<-- R

B B

B R

B B

W Gr

R P

R Y

B B

ok its the ones with the arrows pointing to them that have to be soldered or wired together,this enables the psu to run without a mobo.(note the B is black and the W is white and the Yis yellow(not orange))

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  • 2 weeks later...

does this happen alot? i don't want my first try at this stuff to kill my huge investment (huge cuz it took me a long time to get the $$$ to buy this stuff)

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for something like that do what was mentioned earlier in this thread and power the cathode off another PSU. So this way if that PSU blows up u don't lose another mobo ;)

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