Gigabyte N3150N won't boot with PicoPSU
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 4:18 am
Hi everyone. I'm replacing my old VIA EPIA firewall box with a new one using a Gigabyte GA-N3150N-D3V board, with the Braswell Celeron fanless CPU. But I'm having strange power supply problems.
I want to use the PicoPSU-90 from the old EPIA machine (with a 60W power brick). It has the 4-pin P4 connector that the Gigabyte board requires. It only has a 20-pin ATX connector, and the motherboard has a 24-pin ATX socket, but everything I've read says that shouldn't be a problem.
But the Gigabyte board won't boot with the PicoPSU. No sign of life at all. If I plug in a spare 150W FlexATX that I had lying around, the machine runs just fine, so the hardware is OK.
The only other power-drawing peripherals are an SSD and a USB keyboard. So in theory the PicoPSU should be more than adequate. It will happily drive the EPIA board plus a 2.5" HDD and a desktop CD drive, so the Celeron board and an SSD should be no problem.
So I have a PC that runs fine with another PSU, and a PSU that works fine in another PC. But they won't work together. Anyone have any ideas why it might be?
I want to use the PicoPSU-90 from the old EPIA machine (with a 60W power brick). It has the 4-pin P4 connector that the Gigabyte board requires. It only has a 20-pin ATX connector, and the motherboard has a 24-pin ATX socket, but everything I've read says that shouldn't be a problem.
But the Gigabyte board won't boot with the PicoPSU. No sign of life at all. If I plug in a spare 150W FlexATX that I had lying around, the machine runs just fine, so the hardware is OK.
The only other power-drawing peripherals are an SSD and a USB keyboard. So in theory the PicoPSU should be more than adequate. It will happily drive the EPIA board plus a 2.5" HDD and a desktop CD drive, so the Celeron board and an SSD should be no problem.
So I have a PC that runs fine with another PSU, and a PSU that works fine in another PC. But they won't work together. Anyone have any ideas why it might be?