I'm actually already doing it. What I want to know is how to control the second supply....
I ran into trouble when I added additional WDC raptor drives to my system drive Raid 0. Went to four drives from two and that seemed to be the straw that broke the camel's back. Began to receive power crashes.
So I built an external enclosure from drive cages I had laying around in my computer shop, installled the four drives with a new ATX 350 watt, set them alongside my full tower and guess what? It works fine - no more power problems - (I'm writing this ain't I?).
I know some may say "buy a bigger power supply" but I'm already at 550 or 600 and an 800 watt power supply won't be cheap. Besides, this was fun.
I must manually turn on and off with the power supply toggle - I permanently engaged the ATX with a jumper clip into the atx connector, (same one you jump to determine if a ps is alive).
I'd like to have it come on auto when the system is turned on, turn off auto and stand by auto. I'm assuming this would require a signal to be scavenged from the mobo to primary power supply if it's possible at all.
Any help available?
I ran into trouble when I added additional WDC raptor drives to my system drive Raid 0. Went to four drives from two and that seemed to be the straw that broke the camel's back. Began to receive power crashes.
So I built an external enclosure from drive cages I had laying around in my computer shop, installled the four drives with a new ATX 350 watt, set them alongside my full tower and guess what? It works fine - no more power problems - (I'm writing this ain't I?).
I know some may say "buy a bigger power supply" but I'm already at 550 or 600 and an 800 watt power supply won't be cheap. Besides, this was fun.
I must manually turn on and off with the power supply toggle - I permanently engaged the ATX with a jumper clip into the atx connector, (same one you jump to determine if a ps is alive).
I'd like to have it come on auto when the system is turned on, turn off auto and stand by auto. I'm assuming this would require a signal to be scavenged from the mobo to primary power supply if it's possible at all.
Any help available?