On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Phil Anderson wrote:
A word of caution - I don't know if Dell still does this, but I know for a
while they also used proprietary power supplies - the pins in the ATX header
were swapped around. Hopefully they've stopped this silliness but it's
something to look out for on older Dell models. This article explains it
(note it's from 2001:
http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=339053&rl=1 , also check
out http://members.csolutions.net/dougm/images/dell/casemods.htm , it
appears this is only on the older beige dell models which were mainly the
Pentium 3 or earlier boxes.)
I got bit by this once. I tried to transplant a Dell P3 933 motherboard
into a nicer ATX case, and the standard ATX PSU let out the magic smoke
when plugged into this wonky mobo :-(
Alexey
