Another update...
Power Supply Cable customizing 101...
First... MEASURE... Second... MEASURE AGAIN!
On the power supply itself, I marked and desoldered all the power cable connections...
I found that my new (new for me, purchased from a friend) video card has a floppy drive power hookup on it (Ati All-in-Wonder Radeon 9700 Pro). So I figure to give it the most stable output, I'm would make a dedicated cable just for that. So that was the first project on the agenda.
First I disassembled a regular molex connector and a floppy drive power connector...
Next I snipped off the ends of each of the cables as I'm going to use the wires from the single long molex cable for the FDD connector...
Here it is with the FDD pins soldered to the regular molex wires and assembled...
Here is the "Expandable Sleeving" (I picked up at
Fry's Electronics) added to the cable and melted closed at the tip...
On the ATX power connector cable, which already had some "Expandable Sleeving" installed along with a band of heat shrink tubing to hold it...
I cut off the heat shrink tubing...
Then I used the tip of my soldering iron and some needle nose pliers to create a rounded end...
Next I put "Expandable Sleeving" on the 12V cable...
And here are all the cables including the cable for my DVD-ROM, DVD+RW and Floppy Drive...
Hope to get the RAID drive and secondary storage hard drive power cables done tomorrow... then I can solder them to the circuit board.
Cheers!