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[LUG] Power supply behaviour (and sources)

 

A power supply from a PC should start up when the mains is plugged into it?

It draws a little power from the mains - at least there is a spark
noise when the lead is shoved in live, but its fan doesn't start up.

There is no voltage on the green lead that I gather is supposed to be
+5v and driven low to switch it on

Plugs from it are a block of 8 and a block of 24 - ATX isn't it.


My room is so quiet at the moment though that I may be in the market
for a new machine that has less howling fans.  Old one is a Dell
Poweredge 1850 and I use grahics cards in PCI-Express slots.

What does the panel like for hardware these days?

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