This is rather odd.........
So, soon (in a couple months that is) i'm going to be starting on a big modding project, which i'll update you guys on when i get around to it.
Anyways one of the core pieces of this project requires a modified power supply so that the motherboard on/off is nulled, and the power can simply be turned on by flipping the back switch.
Naturally, this can be accomplished by simply hooking the power supply's green wire (on the atx cable) to a ground wire. However, this is where i come into problems.
After dismantling the PSU (being VERY careful) and cutting wires, and attatching the green to ground, i've come into a problem.
When you turn the PSU on, the fans spins for a second to receive power, then cuts out with the rest of the unit. Flipping the back switch does nothing. Once you unplug it's power chord, plug it back in, and flip the switch again does it do the same procedure (spin for a split second and then cut power).
But the oddest thing about this, is that when i take the green wire (dangerously, when the PSU is live) and move it rapidly connected and disconnected to the ground wire, the PSU then becomes perfectly active, until of course you stop rapidly moving them and either leave it disconnected or connected.
Can anyone help me?