"ASUS P5Q Deluxe discussion".

[wongnog]

What? Do you mean that the fried mobo is still working using the other 4pin that was covered?

yes to my exact surprise that is what is happening! I have a picture of the CPU1 4 pin connector from my PSU, you can clearly see where it's fried the mobo. So I used the other CPU2 4 pin connector and plugged it in to the 4 pin part of the mobo that was covered. Needless to say once I get my new psu and mobo I will plug BOTH 4 pin connectors in!!!

My thoughts too, I didnt think it worked using just the 4 pins that are covered, I thought you could only use the 4 open pins or 8 pin, but thats my next query, if you had the 8 pins available then why did you only use the 4 pin power connector to start with instead of all 8 ?

I honestly didn't know that's what I was supposed to do, because my old board only had a 4 pin cpu connector on it. I thought that 4 of the 8 pins were closed for a reason, and I thought my PSU's 2x4-pin CPU plugs were meant for 2 physical CPUs. I should have known better since I have a quad core but I guess I didn't do enough research/reading before building my new system.