Quoting Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: <snip> > > Careful: the other power supply has to match the mobo. With bulk Asian > computer hardware, that has always been the case. However, some dipshit > at one big American computer assembler (like Dell, Compaq, though I
Dell. There were articles about it in several US computer magazines. Wesley Parish > don't recall who) decided to use the same power supply/mobo plugs with > a > different pinout in their own brand of computers. Mixing one of those > supplies/mobos with a standard one will invariably let the smoke out. > Late 90s vintage I think. > > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
