Quote from: joeventura on October 11, 2013, 04:23:06 PM

Quote from: -Redacted- on October 11, 2013, 04:01:10 PM

And here is a tip for everyone. You know those two pins you jump to make the PSU work? Do you know what those are used for?

When you press the OFF switch your motherboard opens those two pins, telling the PSU to power everything down safely. That is the only correct way to shut a system down - pull the jumper, then power off the PSU.

If you just flip the PSU switch off, you leave a "whole lot of amerage" suddenly looking for the quickest way to get home. And electrons aren't fussy, if they can find a shorter path across a component instead of thru it, they'll use that. If there are unseen micro droplets of solder on the solder mask that present a shorter path, they'll use that path, carbonizing the solder mask and making it an even BETTER shortcut - resulting in nasty smelling smoke and burned solder mask...

Just flipping the PSU switch to off might not break anything the first time or even 100th time you do it, but eventually you'll pay the price, and the magic smoke gets out. There's a very valid reason why you don't just turn off your computer by yanking the plug out of the wall socket - and flipping the PSU switch is the equivalent of doing that. Do that to your desktop computer a few times and see how well it runs as a result...

Good tip thanks!

I bought this (sry for bad pic)
I didnt take much notice at the time, but the jumper is set to pin 4 and pin 6 unlike the setup suggested in the manual of pin 4 and 5
I also have the 8vrm boards and the 6 connection controller board