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You have an HP, so that might be a specific HP PSU. If that's the case, the PSU is the 6-pin that you see the yellow and purple connectors near the top.

 

You can buy adapters for ATX to HP, but honestly that's a bit of a kludge and I'd probably suggest something like this:

https://www.newegg.ca/p/2S7-01JK-03R13?item=9SIAJ6A9179630

 

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Double check what you actually have though, as though this is doable, it's likely that the chassis will not fit a non-HP PSU correctly since the PSU will likely be a different physical size with fan positions in not-deal positions.

 

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So I'm new into all this and I really didn't realise but it seems that my motherboard only has 4 pins for the main pcu power connector. Now the problem is that I've bought a pcu with 24 pins... This pcu is Chieften GPM 450S. My question is as I see it has a lot of connectors and 2 of them are 4pin connectors and I want to know if I can plug one of those in my motherboard and will it work?

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No.

Your motherboard should have a 24 pin ATX connector (which is actually 20+4 pin) and a 4 pin EPS (or 8 pin EPS, which is 4+4 pin EPS) connector.

Usually the 24 pin is on the right side of the board and the 4 pin EPS on the top left of the board. This can of course vary.

Looks like your PSU has this too:

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I don't see this PSU mentioned on the PSU tier list on this website, so I don't know about its quality though.

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You have an HP, so that might be a specific HP PSU. If that's the case, the PSU is the 6-pin that you see the yellow and purple connectors near the top.

 

You can buy adapters for ATX to HP, but honestly that's a bit of a kludge and I'd probably suggest something like this:

https://www.newegg.ca/p/2S7-01JK-03R13?item=9SIAJ6A9179630

 

s-l640.jpg

 

Double check what you actually have though, as though this is doable, it's likely that the chassis will not fit a non-HP PSU correctly since the PSU will likely be a different physical size with fan positions in not-deal positions.

 

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On 8/21/2019 at 12:35 PM, Kisai said:

You have an HP, so that might be a specific HP PSU. If that's the case, the PSU is the 6-pin that you see the yellow and purple connectors near the top.

 

You can buy adapters for ATX to HP, but honestly that's a bit of a kludge and I'd probably suggest something like this:

https://www.newegg.ca/p/2S7-01JK-03R13?item=9SIAJ6A9179630

 

s-l640.jpg

 

Double check what you actually have though, as though this is doable, it's likely that the chassis will not fit a non-HP PSU correctly since the PSU will likely be a different physical size with fan positions in not-deal positions.

 

Hey I've already ordered it, but what i wanted to ask is how safe are ATX to HP cables? Do i have to be afraid of any short circuits or anything? 

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Hey I just ran in a issue. You see when i've connected everything and run my PC all I get is 4 beeps and a pause between them, while power key led flashes red. When I searched online it says it's a problem with memory but when I changed back to old pcu it worked again, so it must be not enough or no power delivered to ram or something? Is there any way to fix this or did I just dig an even deeper hole for myself?

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