Q:I bought a 9800 gtx card, and it needs 2 power cables connected to the power supply for it to work. It's a monster card. My power supply has one pci express power cable only. Will I need adapters to plug into my power supply?

The adapter must have two of the four pin Molex connectors. It uses three of the wires, in the four pin Molex connector. (3 wires x 2=One 6 pin PCI-Express power connector)

Q:I mean like the power connector cables. All power supplys have the same cables to supply power from the PSU to components right?

no all smps don't have same cable you have to purchase same smps as you using right now or according to your motherboard

Q:I'm getting some upgrades for my pc and that includes a new power supply with the necessary amperage and 2 6-pin pci-e connectors to power my card. The card is already here but the psu probably won't get here until next week. I want to know if there is any way to run the card from the power coming from the pci-e slot. The card requires 2x 6-pin connectors, but i want to install it now to get that out of the way...

No, it will simply not work as the additional power supply is needed even for normal operation (not just gaming). This is designed to avoid overloading the motherboard's power circuits.

Q:I just have the power cable for battery, lost the ground cable.. Can I cut from power cable and use for ground? Are they the same thing or different cables.??

for the most part, all wire is the same. Just a bunch of stands of copper and sometimes aluminum. So yes, go ahead and use the power cable.

Q:I don't know what the cable is specifically called, so I am having no luck finding it. I just keep finding adapters. Am I able to buy a replacement?

If the power cable you are speaking of really was for power then it might be a type of adaptor cable so your power supply in your PC can connect to your graphics card. Graphics cards typically are getting their power from the power supply directly and usually there's either a 6-pin or 8-pin plug on your power supply (assuming you have the right power supply) that connects directly to the graphics card. Sometimes there is no 6 or 8 pin connector so the manufacturer of the graphics card will supply an adaptor cable to connect to a standard Molex connector. (see link)

Q:I have a dell xps 420 and I wanted to replace the power cable as it's broken, the cable according to the specs looked like this http://cl.ly/image/311R232N120a and http://cl.ly/image/3L2C1h2V3C1X. Where can I buy the same exact cable with the same color code? I tried looking at OKorder, but didn't see any

If you are located outside USA, let me know so that I can provide you the correct information. Let me know if you need any further support. I will be glad to help you. Dell-Niranjan

Q:i have a 97 chevy malibu and i need to know where to run the power cable through the fire wall. or where could i get a diagram that is simple enough for me to understand...

if you can fit under you dash you can see that mostly all cars and i say all cars becuase iv been doing this for over 10yrs and all cars have a wire that comes from the stearing colum that goes through a rubber gasket into your engine. What we do is the gasket already has a hole in it push your chair as far back as can go and shimmy under the dash bring a flash light becuase its sometimes hard to see and youll see a round black rubber type thing with a wire already running through it. Thats the one to use you might need a long metel thin rod or use a meter coat hanger. Using black electrical tape, tape some of the power wire to the tip of the hanger and push it through the exsisting whole as far as you can then go into your engine and you should be able to see the wire then just pull it to the length you need to wire to the batter dont forget to install a fuse at least 30amps or more depending on how many watts amp your running it for. Dont worry if the little round gasket pops out it can some times do that once your finished with pulling it out and you know your not going to be pulling on the wire again. Then you can actually push the gasket back into place that only if it popped out if it didnt then your good to go.

Q:I have a cam camcorder battery charger power cable and I want to use it as a ps1 power cable. Is It possible. The both look the same.

The charger isn't meant to be a capacity source, purely a charging source. As such, with out battery, this is voltage will selection badly whilst a load is utilized and would land up adverse the stereo and/or the charger.

Q:I have a Belkin Tune Cast II FM transmitter. The fuse in the DC car power cable is .5 A but it blows every time I plug it in. What is the correct fuse to use for this charger?

Those transmitters are very low amp draw... as you noted 0.5 amps, which at 13 volts is about 7 watts of power... and even that sounds high for a portable electronic FM transmitter. With that little power, you probably have a faulty unit for a fuse to blow. I assume you are using an aux 12v power source in your car and the (cigarette lighter) adapter that came with the transmitter. Now most adapters are not fused, but yours might be, and you could open it up and just see what the number on the fuse is - probably 2.5 amps max. Radioshack carries replacements for those small fuses. Considering that the car's fuse rating on most aux power sources is about 15 amps, your transmitter could not possibly draw that much unless there were a problem. The problem may lie in the aux power socket or in the adapter itself. I'd start by trying something else with an adapter - such as a cell phone charger. If plugging that into the same socket blows the fuse (in your car's fuse panel) then its probably the socket. If however it works fine, then the problem lies the adapter on your transmitter; which = return that and get a new one. I have seen many adapters with bad design that shorted easily and blow the car's fuse. Pray that its the adapter and not the socket.

Q:It is a Gateway Desktop AMD Athlon 64X2 4200, 2048 DDR2, running Win XP Media center edition with Update Rollup 2. It first started when I put it in quot;stand-bymode and the computer refused to wake up. It has now gotten so bad I have to unplug the power several times with waiting periods in-between, before it will start up. I don't know much about computers but have been reading and trying different set-ups as I read about possible causes. If anyone can help, I'd appreciate.

its a dodgey PSU....get a new 1...( or take it to a shop and get it fitted if u dont know what ur doing)