power supply

[drewK7VT2]

I am in the process of building a server machine. It will consist of four hard drives, 1 cdrom, 1 floppy, pentium200mmx cpu and tyan s1470 motherboard. also will have a large amount of EDO ram, 2 netgear 10/100 nic's and whatever video card i can find, probably a diamond stealth64 or a voodoo3. my problem is, i don't have an AT power supply that is more than 250 watts (and the ones I have only have 3 power connectors for ATA drives). Would I be overloading a 250watt power supply with this setup by splitting off two of the ATA power connectors into four with those adapters you can get at most computer stores? If it would be drawing too much power, I can always use a 2nd power supply for some of the hard drives, but I'd prefer not to. As a last resort, does anyone know where i can get a high-wattage AT power supply for a very low price? used or new so long as it works.

Thank you,
Andrew

[foghat46]

I don't know that this falls under "low priced" but I found an Antec 300W AT at this link: www.hard-drive.com/items.asp?CartId={2EC5D028-99F0-4B33-8043-88B0ED5863A6}&Cc=H%5FPOWR%5FPOWS&Tp= After all, it is an Antec.

[Cricket]

A good quality 250 watt AT power supply should be more than enough to power that system...but with only 3 power leads, you have to be careful of their placement.

Make sure the boot drive is connected directly to a power lead by itself. You can use Y-splitters for the other drives. Use only 1 Y-splitter per power lead though...don't daisy chain a bunch of Y-splitters together or that could lead to trouble.

Cricket

[drewK7VT2]

just found out a friend of mine might be giving me an Enlight 300w AT p.s. if he can find it but in case he doesn't, thanks i'll keep that in mind.

[glc]

AT is easy to use dual power supplies if you go that way.