There is a problem with the power supply on Dell. At some point, they reversed the polarity, making it proprietary. If you put a non-Dell motherboard on one of those machines without changing out the powersupply, you'll fry it.
The details are available at http://hardwareguys.com . Bill Roberts On 15:16 Tue 28 Jun , Peng wrote: > On 6/28/05, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Peng wrote: > > > > >On 6/28/05, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >>A. Khattri wrote: > > >> > > >>>On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Colin wrote: > > >>> > > >>>>CPU: Undecided, some flavor of Pentium III > > >>>>RAM: 256 MB > > >>>>Storage: 700 MB IDE (/boot, something else) > > >>>>Storage: 18.2 GB Ultra160 SCSI (on a Series 428 MegaRAID) > > >>>>OS: Windows NT Server... kidding! Gentoo! > > >>>> > > >>>If you go to the Dell support web site and punch in the service tag or > > >>>serial number (on the back, probably on the PSU) you can get complete > > >>>technical specs on that machine. > > >>> > > >>Yeah, I know, but the only original parts are the case, riser card and > > >>power supply. :-) > > >> > > >> > > >The motherboard? I didn't know you could do that much to a Dell.. > > > > > > > > Don't get your hopes up. It's a replacement. The voltage regulator on > > the old one failed, so it would spontaneously reboot. But I imagine > > motherboards from similar Dell desktops of that era would also fit in > > that case. > > > > -- > > Colin > > Oh, so it's just a more or less identical replacement from Dell? Which > parts are just replacements and which are actually different? > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >
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