10 Jan
2002
10 Jan
'02
6:55 a.m.
There's a 5v line (IIRC) broken away from the ATX plug and routed to an
auxillary connector on the motherboard, a company makes an adaptor so you
can use a standard ATX supply with a DELL mainboard.
At 02:16 PM 1/10/02 -0500, you wrote:
Even though their Optiplex PCs seem to be standard ATX
form factor, their
power supply does not meet the standard. Putting in a generic ATX power
supply will not work. Something about the wiring being changed slightly on
the power plug. perhaps someone else has details about that.
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