My DVD burner started acting up and I found the only way to make use of it
was to plug it into the power cord that branches out of my 9800 pro. The
system seems stable and I'm guessing this'll be okay so long as I never try
to play Doom 3 and burn a DVD at the same time.

Anyone have any experience with this?

TIA

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BAMMO

BeingAnonymousMakesMeObnoxious wrote:
> My DVD burner started acting up and I found the only way to make use of it
> was to plug it into the power cord that branches out of my 9800 pro. The
> system seems stable and I'm guessing this'll be okay so long as I never try
> to play Doom 3 and burn a DVD at the same time.
>
> Anyone have any experience with this?
>

I'm daisy chaining mine off the one that runs the HDD.




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Conor

Opinions personal, facts suspect.

BeingAnonymousMakesMeObnoxious wrote:

> My DVD burner started acting up and I found the only way to make use of it
> was to plug it into the power cord that branches out of my 9800 pro. The
> system seems stable and I'm guessing this'll be okay so long as I never
> try to play Doom 3 and burn a DVD at the same time.
>
> Anyone have any experience with this?

Should be fine as long as the cables are heavy enough to carry the current.
If you take the power supply apart you'll find that all the cables are
terminated to the same traces--there aren't separate supplies feeding each
cable or anything.

> TIA
>
> --
> BAMMO

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--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

The HDD/FDD connectors are specified for up to 10 amps,the wires 16 amps.
However,at least the 9500/9700 series is very sensible to line noise,which can
be caused by drive servos.(will cause screen fuzzyness)