Re: [UM-LINUX] [OT] power supplies.

[Alexander Mahabir]

I noticed, after trying to mod a couple cases from  manufactueres such as Dell, and SonicSomething that the cases were engineered to be space efficient, and accomodate only the components of that specific model package. Atleast I assume thats what they aimed for, because to trying to put something of any other size, will just not work. The only way you may be able to pull this off is to jimm it in like you did before, cut the case, or like I once did, I had my power supply sit outside the case, and ran the cables from outside (yes it was soo ghetto ;) ). Or perhaps you could measure the dimensions of the old powersupply and see if you could find one that matches that size, and pushes the amount of power you need.

-Alex.

On 10/4/05, Patrick Curran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Okie I'm frustrated...google didn't seem to help, so I turn to you:
My parents have a gateway computer, last year the power supply went.
The original PS simply snaped into the case. When it died, we bought a new one
at the local computer shop.  It didn't quite fit in, but we kinda jimmied it in there, and we wern't
upset because we just bought one at random thinking there was some kinda standard size.

Well that one died and we wanted to get one that just snapped in like the first on.  So call to gateway...
at first they sent up a power back up thing...not even close to what we wanted...then they just sent us another
power supply but that doesnt fit either...there doesnt seem to be anyway to screw it in at all.  It was a mini-atx supply,
not sure if that means anything.

So my question is, if I know what case I have, how do I get a power supply that can fit into it.
It seems like this should be a standard thing.  Gateway seems to be useless.

Actually this isnt a huge problem I have the model of the original power-supply, I just wanted to vent, and also
learn about how to handle this problem in the future, cos I shouldn't have to buy the exact same one.  I want to
just be able to go and pick one up that will fit.