Recent content by alexcomp

Thanks for an intelligent response to a serious question. (I'll digress a little and snap back at the rude responses - three monitors are quite useful if you're doing stuff like charting the stock market while doing email while managing business books - in other words productive stuff - not...

Because they're there....

No, the PSU is still on at standby. Don't quite understand this.. Will my four drives running from second ps turn off at standby?

I don't quite get the "The best way is just to put a switch to bridge PSU_ON and GND, instead of a hard wire." Can you amplify on that a little bit?

I like the relay idea. The speedy 3d illustration shows two supplies, the first bridged like I currently have my second supply. My first supply is controlled by the mobo so not quite the same but I'm assuming that's not an issue. I can see how on and off should work fine.... How about stand...

Used to do it in XP pro 32 I have a Creative/ATI 1600 pci express card with two outputs so I can do two monitors OK. I also have a PCI video card I used to use with an AGP card similar to the above in a previous mobo and had no problems with three monitors. When I put in the PCI display card...

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...