Hi, its has been 3 years that my acer aspire idea 500 power supply broken (not working). since the replacement power supply is difficult to find in here (Malaysia), I have to modified the supply cable on the connector to match my aspire idea power supply (PS). old bulky PS aspire idea with old PS which sits outside my media center the original replacement is about £50 now at UK..While, here in my home country, no chance to find it. so, I have to find alternative way to make my idea 500 working. one way was to use old power supply (twice the size of its original PS) and rearrange it cables to PS connector to suit the idea 500 supply. That was done (and working) 3 years ago. these pins used for removing the cable from old PS connector for rearrangement Recently, I managed to get some courage to open my dusty aspire idea 500 original PS casing to find out the source of the problem. 120W original aspire idea 500 PS model FSP120-40GLS ...
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