Depending on your Gateway model, chances are it's a propietary power supply specifically designed for that Gateway model's chassis. Your best bet is to look for the old power supply and get a Gateway Part Number (P/N) from it if you can. Or, if you have the original invoice (if you ordered it online, gateway might still let you view it), you should be able to go to gateway's support site to find out the part numbers that went into your PC, if it was custom built.
I will apologize in advance if you already tried this and I didn't read it... but if you want a "perfect" power supply, the best place to get it from is from the manufacturer itself. One other option if gateway doesn't sell them anymore, is that you might be able to just google the gateway model number and put in "power supply", because some third party vendors will sell you power supplies and say "compatible with IBM P/N ______ Gateway _____" etc...
But the modder option, of course, is to just cut things out... wouldn't really be my approach, but then again, buying a propietary case wouldn't either. Let us know how it goes ;)
Ashish.
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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 13:47:59 -0400
From: Patrick Curran < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [OT] power supplies.
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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.
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Okie I'm frustrated...google didn't seem to help, so I turn to you:<br>
My parents have a gateway computer, last year the power supply went.<br>
The original PS simply snaped into the case. When it died, we bought a new =
one <br>
at the local computer shop. It didn't quite fit in, but we kinda jimm=
ied it in there, and we wern't<br>
upset because we just bought one at random thinking there was some kinda st=
andard size.<br>
<br>
Well that one died and we wanted to get one that just snapped in like the f=
irst on. So call to gateway...<br>
at first they sent up a power back up thing...not even close to what we wan=
ted...then they just sent us another <br>
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, <br>
not sure if that means anything.<br>
<br>
So my question is, if I know what case I have, how do I get a power supply =
that can fit into it.<br>
It seems like this should be a standard thing. Gateway seems to be us=
eless.<br>
<br>
Actually this isnt a huge problem I have the model of the original power-su=
pply, I just wanted to vent, and also<br>
learn about how to handle this problem in the future, cos I shouldn't have =
to buy the exact same one. I want to <br>
just be able to go and pick one up that will fit.<br>
<br>
<br>
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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 19:57:55 -0400
From: Alexander Mahabir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [OT] power supplies.
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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 b=
e
able to pull this off is to jimm it in like you did before, cut the case, o=
r
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 ne=
w
> 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 suppl=
y
> 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 hav=
e
> to buy the exact same one. I want to
> just be able to go and pick one up that will fit.
>
>
>
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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.<br>
<br>
-Alex.<br><br><div><span class=3D"gmail_quote">On 10/4/05, <b class=3D"gmai=
l_sendername">Patrick Curran</b> <<a href="" href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]=
.com">[EMAIL PROTECTED] </a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class=3D"gm=
ail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt =
0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Okie I'm frustrated...google didn't seem to help, so I turn to you:<br>
My parents have a gateway computer, last year the power supply went.<br>
The original PS simply snaped into the case. When it died, we bought a new =
one <br>
at the local computer shop. It didn't quite fit in, but we kinda jimm=
ied it in there, and we wern't<br>
upset because we just bought one at random thinking there was some kinda st=
andard size.<br>
<br>
Well that one died and we wanted to get one that just snapped in like the f=
irst on. So call to gateway...<br>
at first they sent up a power back up thing...not even close to what we wan=
ted...then they just sent us another <br>
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, <br>
not sure if that means anything.<br>
<br>
So my question is, if I know what case I have, how do I get a power supply =
that can fit into it.<br>
It seems like this should be a standard thing. Gateway seems to be us=
eless.<br>
<br>
Actually this isnt a huge problem I have the model of the original power-su=
pply, I just wanted to vent, and also<br>
learn about how to handle this problem in the future, cos I shouldn't have =
to buy the exact same one. I want to <br>
just be able to go and pick one up that will fit.<br>
<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div><br>
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