Hi Sean,
You:
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The only problem is i bought a psu from best buy with my discount so i got a really good deal, but its way too big for my z555, which i know would happen. I went ahead and made a rig to store the psu externally and stored it away in a breathable location. Its a 500 watt psu so I think I will be ok for now.
After replacing the power supply 3 times in my z558, I followed your lead and bought a larger power supply with a higher wattage rating and located it outside of the cabinet (behind my z558). Moving the power supply out of the cabinet opens up some space where the old power supply was located... perhaps room for another internal hard disk drive?
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the psu didnt come with all the connections that the z555 psu had so im unable to run the front panel display. is there any way to get converters to convert some of the hookups into others?
I salvaged the connector and wires from the old failed power supply and spliced it into the wires leading to the 24-pin main motherboard connector.
The wire colors / signals for that other connector (which is labeled P6) are:
Purple => +5 VDC Standby
Black => Ground
Red => +5VDC
Black => Ground
Yellow => +12 VDC
Black => Ground
Grey => Power Good
If I were to do it again, I would likely just buy a cheap short ATX 24-pin extender cable and split into that in order to avoid hacking the wiring of the new power supply.
BigWorm2005GT:
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If 'twere me, I would figure out which line is the +5, +12, and ground, then splice those onto a 4-pin Molex connector (sort of like the SATA-to-IDE power adapters that you can get), so you're not doing surgery to your new PS, just adding an adapter, as it were.
The +5 VDC Standby and Power Good signals don't go to these peripheral connectors.
Thanks!
Arden
