Problem with Dell L800r and 'Antec' case

Hi, Mind_caddy.

You cannot connect a Dell system board to a standard ATX power supply, because Dell's power supply and board are proprietary, see this article.

http://www.upgradingandrepairingpcs.com/articles/upgrade3_01_01.asp

If you wish to use an ATX power unit, then the system board will also have to be replaced and all the usable parts transfered on to it.

Bev.

You might be stuck. Dell uses a proprietary Power Supply and modified ATX motherboard. See the article here for additional information...


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Message Edited on 07/13/02 10:27AM by Bob11

Mind-caddy,

Maybe this link will help, they do list Power Supply for Dell Systems;

http://www.pcpowercooling.com/products/power_supplies/selector/index.htm

another good link for anything Dell is here;

http://duhvoodooman.com/

Marvin P

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Welcome to the wonderful world of upgrading, Dell style!

well OMG !!!!!! bah - the ppl at bestbuy told me dell did some funny "stuff" but JEESH this is just almost like extortion !!!!! - ive read all the manuals for my dell computer and it said nothing to the nature of having an UNUPGRADABLE power supply - *boo hisss booo for shame boooooo - bad dell no no*

hey Dell - how many motherboards/power supplys have your customers had to replace because you did not inform customers of this "key" valuable tidbit of information ???? its a good thing i know a little of electronics and components that when i failed to see the motherboard light come on i tore the plug from the wall !

and yes i too compared the plugs and wires before i ever hooked anything up but i figured that some companies use different coding of wire colors ( i used to make wire for a living insulating the copper so i know a lil bout color coding ) and again i am the stubborn type of person that if a company wont give me what i want ill take matters into my own hands - pulling prongs and splicing wires isnt a big deal to me - its the fact that they failed to tell me this BEFORE i spent $100 on a Case and power supply - its a good thing antec made thier cases universal in the bolting patterns!!!! and bestbuy went through the trouble of swapping the power supply's for me

what i want to know is why can i not find any real hardware on dells site ? - sure they got monitors, speakers, cdrom, memory, graphix cards, and whatnot but when it comes to stuff like cases, power supplies, and motherboards - you hafta goto an actual computer supply store to get them?

whats the deal Dell?? ive always told everyone i know that Dell computers are the bomb ! get a dell i say - hp, compaq, gateway(all create a low preasure region around thier eating hole) - get a dell they rock - but now after almost burning my computer and quite possibly myself - im contemplating wether or not having all the software that came with it is worth being trapped with 2 unupgradable key components.

its sucha pain to swap harddrives from one computer to another one just for programs - those ide cables can only handle so much being hooked up and unhooked and rehooked up

Many of the PC vendors use proprietary hardware. Compaq, IBM, HP, etc.

I wanted to upgrade a Compaq Presario and ran into problems. The motherboard wouldn't fit in a stock case and the power supply motherboard connectors were also proprietary.

I hear the "cow" PC's are all "stock" components, not proprietary.

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well im enrolled in Devry's ECT program - so once class gets rolling ill hack appart these power supplies and wire em up good like heh




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