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Can I splice a wire for desktop power supply?
My old Gateway XP power supply has a frozen cooling fan so I bought a new one but the new supply is missing one small floppy connector on the end of a run of 4 pin connectors that powers the DVD drives.
Can I just splice the extra connector onto the wire from the old unit? The wires are all color coded the same and are the same gauge.
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Yeah, you should be able to splice it just fine. Assuming you still actually use the floppy drive. I'd just leave it otherwise.
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10-23-2013, 12:21 PM
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Mystic: actually, I haven't used the floppy in a decade but, the other floppy connection is on a card across from the drives and the cable doesn't quite reach.
Thanks for the reassurance that its OK to do the splice. I am surprised that someone hasn't posted "be sure to shut off the machine first"... 
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