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Connections from the Power Supply:

[1] the big 24 pin (they label it 20 + 4) connector must be what the motherboard manual calls ATXPWR1 - no other place it can go

[2] the 4 pin square connector (yellow & black wires) can only fit the ATXPWR2 connector

[3] there are two SATA Power Connectors (about 2 cm wide; with 5 wires each) - I put these into the HDD and DVD inserts.

[4] there is a daisy chain of connectors left over - it has two of 4 round pin connectors on it (Molex?) and at the end the 4 wires go to a 4 pin flat plug of some sort.

- I'm not sure what to do with cable #4. If it is all for legacy applications, I can just tie wrap it out of the way. The 4 pin flat loug makes me think it needs to be used for something however.

- I note that the GPU (graphics) card is a double-wide trailer sort of thing and has its own fan. That makes me suspicious that it might want its own power supply (ind. of the power thru the m-board). It has some metal traces on top of its PCB that look like they might like something connected there... but each of those two tabs has a dozen or more connecting traces so it can't be for the 4 wire flat connector.
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