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Thank you everyone who gave me their advice regarding my pernicious PC crashing. I bought the cheapest decent 650w PSU I could, and after wrestling with the cables, and tugging on cables so hard you'd think they owed me money, it's all set up, and after a quick trial of a game that consistently crashed things after 5 minutes of gameplay, it seems the problem is gone, and thus my old PSU was culpable!
That thing was almost old enough to vote, and the braided cables had been through so much that it was shedding fibers like hair from a shaggy dog. I'll put it out to pasture, since nobody is going to pay for the thing.
I appreciate all the advice!
Old power supplies can still be useful as spare benchtop equipment, if you do any electrical engineering or 3d printing. They can't be trusted for their rated amperage at that age, but there's a lot of applications where you just need 10~20 amps at 12v and don't really care if it's a little noisy. To turn on without a motherboard, simply disconnect the power wire, short the 24-pin green wire to any black wire, and check that no other wires are shorted, and reconnect power.
That said, it's competing against a 20-buck Amazon buy, so if you don't have a use case, probably not worth your time to sell.
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Glad you got it fixed!
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