Bill Roberts wrote:
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.
Fully aware of that. Fortunately, I didn't learn it the hard way.
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.
Oh, so it's just a more or less identical replacement from Dell? Which
parts are just replacements and which are actually different?
The motherboard is the only replacement part. I didn't bother to order
it for Dell, since they wanted well over $100 for it. I found it on
eBay for $15 before shipping. :-)
<brag>
I'll be upgrading the processor and adding a Prism2 wireless G card,
plus I've added more RAM, upgraded the hard drive, sold the modem, took
out the sound card, put in a SCSI RAID controller, and put in a USB
2.0/Firewire 400 card for network device sharing and Firewire networking
(if I choose to implement that).
</brag>
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Colin
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