How To Replace Your Power Supply

Holding The Extra Cables

Your new power supply is now completely installed, however you may have notice that several power cables are left over. Unless your power supply uses a modular system that allows you to physically remove these cables – what you should do –, you will need to fasten these cables to help the computer inner airflow.

Figure 28: A lot of cables are left over.

You can use one of the cable holders that usually come with the power supply, holding all these extra cables together, as shown in Figure 29.

Figure 29: Holding all spare cables together.

Just place the cables in an empty 5 ¼” bay and that’s it.

Figure 30: Place the spare cables in an empty 5 ¼” bay.

Now your new power supply is completely installed and you can screw your case side panel back in place and re-install your computer and enjoy your new power supply. Don’t forget to check if the power supply 110 V/220 V switch is configured in the correct position according to the voltage used on your AC outlet.

Figure 31: Our computer with our news power supply completely installed.