PSU Sleeving Guide August 21st, 2003 - Tekime

Preparing the PSU

The first step is to remove the Molex plugs from our PSU. I'm using an AMD system so for the purposes of this article I'm only focusing on the Molex headers, not the P4 plugs. The concept is similar and it should be no problem to translate these steps over to the P4 plugs. The plugs we need to worry about are the Molex and mini-Molex:

Before removing anything be sure to note the order in which the wires go in! If you cannot remember please refer to the pictures in this article. Starting with the mini-Molex plugs (the ones that go to your floppy drive), we can release the four pins by pressing the tabs down as shown below:

Once the tabs are depressed you can slide the plug off the pins and we'll have four bare pins like this:

The regular Molex plugs require a little more effort; there are two tabs on either side of the pins which you need to push in:

Once you do so, the plugs slide off easily like the mini-Molex did:

Now rinse and repeat until all of the wires are done! You might also find that some of your wires are budled and secured with zip ties. These will serve to annoy you to no end if they aren't removed before the sleeving begins. Just snip them off with some scissors or a wire snip:

If you made it this far, we are almost ready to sleeve! One last thing which I wanted to do is to reorganize the wires where they meet the PSU. They are bundled and zip-tied where they all conjoin on the PSU, and not in the best order. Wires overlapping one another, causing a general mess and not pleasing to look at. I removed the zip tied securing them, played around for a bit until they were a little more organized, then secured them again with a new zip tie.

Once you are happy with this we can sleeve away!

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