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    Personal Iris Power Supply Rescue

     General Information

    Introduction

    My newest Personal Iris 4D/35 doesn't work because it has a broken mainboard, but it also has something very special: One of the previous owners installed a standard 450W ATX power supply instead of the original power supply. And the best is: After I changed the E-Board, the machine works!

    Pin Layout

    The original SGI power supply has the following pin layout:

    Signal Colour Pin No
    +5V white 1,4,7,10,13
    GND green 3,6,9,12,15
    +12V orange 2
    -12 brown 5
    SENSE+ red  
    SENSE- black  
    PFD blue  

    SENSE+, SENSE- are used to control the voltage, while PFD is for power failures. You can simply ignore these, as ATX power supplies have their own voltage regulator.

     

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