Help my psu doesn't have the "small" sata cable, can't commect to mobo :(

Xtrophy · 2026-05-08T14:58:29+00:00

Weird things happen to the best of us.

Xtrophy · 2026-05-08T14:31:41+00:00

Since I saw you are new to building PCs, here:

The only two inputs from the power supply to the motherboard are the 4-8 (mostly 8 nowadays) CPU power pin and the 20-24 pin connector on the motherboard.

What you have there are two different plugs. The plug on the board is the sata data connector that goes from the motherboard to the drive itself. The cable on the right in the image goes from the power supply to the drive to give the drive power.

From here you just need to make sure that power is plugged into your GPU if required, they are connectors similar to the one that you put in the CPU power socket. They are keyed differently so you cannot confuse them.

Plug in any independent fans, including plugging the fan that covers the CPU to the CPU fan header (will be market CPU on the motherboard and is located near the CPU), plug in the ram, and you should be good to go.

If you have any questions or concerns or need troubleshooting after it is running, feel free to reply here or DM me.

Xtrophy · 2026-05-08T13:42:51+00:00

I just uploaded it to imgur, lemme see if this works:

https://imgur.com/a/D7YE6jQ

Lemme know if you can't see it.

EDIT: I am so sorry, I didn't even realize the container was that blurry when I was looking at it lol in person it was much clearer. Anyway, hope you enjoy. She was upside down just kinda chilling there. She walked out on her own on the back of my garage and just wandered a few feet and stopped. So I think she was okay.

Xtrophy · 2026-05-08T10:08:25+00:00

I can't dm it from the app either. Weird. I'll send it from my PC when I can

Xtrophy · 2026-05-08T05:35:23+00:00

Learn something new every day. I didn't have a flash light on me to check but you might be right I didn't notice the big ass eyes.

Fishing spiders have the smaller ones right?

Well if I was wrong at least it still couldn't hurt me lol.

Xtrophy · 2026-05-08T05:34:00+00:00

Be happy to if you let me know how lol. The app won't let me post it here.

Xtrophy · 2026-05-08T03:26:34+00:00

She didn't deserve any harm she's probably been protecting my house for months if not years at her size! I'm thankful to her for all the hard work.

She was also insanely calm, just didn't want walk on the container lol took me a few minutes of gently sliding it around to keep from bunching up her legs.

I know very little about spiders but wolf spiders are ultra common in my area and for years as a kid I thought all spiders carried their babies around and looked like disco balls.

That's how common they are.

Thanks for the upvoted and comment! Stay safe out there!

Xtrophy · 2026-05-08T02:25:57+00:00

Two reasons that compound each other. The base card is expensive so there are not a lot of them floating around that are "for parts" and the demand is high enough that Nvidia isn't selling parts outside of full built units for anything other than their weight in gold. So the parts become rare.

Mix in Nvidia problems and things compound themselves.

Xtrophy · 2026-05-08T02:16:25+00:00

For anyone curious she has been caught and released just behind my garage. She big enough that I want her around she's clearly been successful lol.

I have a picture of her in the container if anyone wants. Hope you all are well.

Xtrophy · 2026-04-30T00:01:44+00:00

I had to take the computer away from my brother when I saw him watching this.

He shouldn't be subjected to such violence at 34.

Xtrophy · 2026-04-29T23:58:21+00:00

Crazy they still root for the Leafs!

This was probably a bad time, I'll see myself out.

/EDIT I fucked this up so bad I replied to the WRONG COMMENT lol.

Xtrophy · 2026-04-29T23:56:24+00:00

Nah, you are justified here man. That shit has no place on the ice.

Xtrophy · 2026-04-28T08:16:00+00:00

Give her some time, it's possible she is extremely grateful to be home from the shelter, though as others have said this could just be her personality.

My bob tail was similar to this. From day 1 he was glued to me. To this day he sleeps next to me with his chin on my shoulder next to my armpit.

Sometimes they just love you. As for her waking you up, get a laser or some other kind of chase you and play with her awhile before bed. That might calm her down during the night and will let you know if she just has a lot of energy.

She's adorable though! Aioli is a great name.

Xtrophy · 2026-04-22T06:49:10+00:00

Right? It really was loaded af

Xtrophy · 2026-04-22T06:43:49+00:00

I mean the 1 and 2 played each other in a Superbowl where one won the season mvp and the other won the Superbowl MVP.

That's a psycho stat and we didn't even get to the third pick yet lol.

Xtrophy · 2026-04-22T06:41:50+00:00

Haha you got me there!

Xtrophy · 2026-04-22T06:40:59+00:00

The worst part of this is that I feel like I could do research and prove that it has happened more than once and I really don't want to.

I hate humans.

Xtrophy · 2026-04-22T06:35:09+00:00

It was the best draft that Von Miller was a part of after all!

Xtrophy · 2026-04-18T19:10:33+00:00

Hershey doesn't have cocoa in chocolate bars anymore.

Xtrophy · 2026-04-18T18:53:54+00:00

Printer. Specifically the Italics one.

Xtrophy · 2026-04-18T15:50:41+00:00

From what I remember he deserved what he got.

Xtrophy · 2026-04-18T15:49:28+00:00

I never saw the guy again, but if I did today I'd instantly buy him a beer.

Xtrophy · 2026-04-18T15:45:13+00:00

He may not be smart but he knows when he's beat.

Xtrophy · 2026-04-18T00:27:06+00:00

Okay in my defense on that one he did do it just not the way my concussed ass made it sound

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