28 May
2006
28 May
'06
3:25 p.m.
Gerhard Lenerz wrote:
Anyway... life goes on: Now I need to dismantle the
whole beast to get
to the PSU and then there is the final question... will I find a
replacement if it's FUBAR? Probably I can get an Power Series (IRIS4D)
PSU to work - at least these look pretty similar. If I get the pinout
right, it shouldn't do much harm if the PSU is stronger I guess (say
1500W instead of 1000W, right?).
Make sure it's strong enough, though. I think the 'slimline' 4D machines all
used the same supply regardless of graphics options, but presumably the supply
was different to that used in the double-width 4D machines.
If your system's older than the machine that provides the supply you may well
find that it draws more current too...
I'm sure it can be done, though. Or use a supply from a totally different
system - just if there's lots of monitoring/feedback between the system and
the supply then you might have fun trying to figure out how to rig it all up.
(I'm probably not making any sense - coffee not kicked in yet :-)
cheers
Jules