[Asterisk-Users] Digium Cards in Boxes without Power Connectors

[Gabriel Millerd]

> 
> Well, I can't really recommend this as I suppose it COULD do bad things
> to a computer, but one of the Asterisk boxes I set up was working for
> about a week without having a separate power connector plugged into the
> board. Just drawing PCI power it apparently worked fine. YMMV.
> 
      yeah i tried that and was advised not to for technical reasons i
cannot really understand. makes sense however on its face not to have
a power supply dangling from your computer