Necrosy Report: Power Supply: Not What Was Wrong with Computer [COLUG]

[Bill Baker]

On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 10:55 -0400, jep200404 wrote:
> Bill Baker wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 18:01 -0400, jep200404 wrote:
> > > The power supply ...
> 
> > > Nudging the blades through the grill, revealed that 
> > > the fan was siezed. ... It [the fan] made a full recovery. 
> 
> > Does this mean that the power supply was what was wrong with it? 
> 
> No. The power supply is OK in spite of the previously stuck fan. 
> 
> The motherboard, and only the motherboard, is what was bad. 

Ah, OK.  The wording was a bit ambiguous.  I thought when you offered to
give it back to me you meant that all the original parts were working
again.

> Now that I understand what Dell did to screw up the ATX standard, 
> your old power supply with its stupid pin-out, 
> is waiting for a Dell motherboard with the same stupid pinout. 

Dell told me they'd sell me one for $139.  I laughed at them.