Sometime today I have to install a PSU and I have basically no idea how to do that
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Someone was like "take pictures" and I was like oh that's a good idea and so I'm trying and they just all look like someone's last known photograph. This is some Blair Witch Project shit. Resident Evil cutscene with a fake VHS filter
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Oh hey look! It's the connector that I will not be able to use Windows 11 because I refuse to hook it up. Fuck DRM and fuck Microsoft LOL
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Note: I don't actually know if the mobo connector labeled "TPM" has anything to do with the TPM. I just wanted an excuse to complain about Windows 11
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Okay this is weird. I've got
- Little strip periodically marked with wide metal plugs
- Plug type with four teeth
- Existing dongle connecting four-teeth to wide plug??
Is the wide plug "SATA"? Can I just go ahead and connect the four-teeth to the SATA ribbon and not worry?
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Most stuff is covered by the main motherboard cable, CPU cable and GPU cable.
Case fans should ideally be connected to motherboard case fan headers for fan control. Sometimes they are hooked up to PSU or PSU via fan controller. You very likely don't have a fan controller though.
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If you only have M.2 drives, that's it. If you have SATA SSDs and hard drives, those need SATA power. EVGA gives you multiple SATA power cables and one of them can hook up 3-4 drives. BluRay, DVD, etc. similar.
Ancient stuff uses molex connectors. It's unlikely you need those.
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I'm not sure but I think the molex is powering the little light on front of the case
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Power/activity LED and powe /reset buttons are usually powered by tiny little pins that go into a ridiculously hard to deal with set of pins on the lower right of motherboard, not PSU. Each pin is generally separate. Horrible. Recent mobos have thing that detaches to help.
The molex one going to the front of the case could be a case fan. See if you can just disconnect that and plug in a fan connector to the motherboard directly. Then you can also control speed, often automatically. If not, you can use the adapter to hook it up to the SATA power.