Well....I knew it would happen one day. Buying a dell bit me in the butt. This is my first post, by the way, so I wanted to say hi to everybody
Anyway...my Dell 250watt (which came with the computer) power supply stunk, and it finally died on me. I was desperately in search for another power supply. Turns out that the newest computers from dell (8200 and above) don't really require a special power supply in regaurds to the connectors which go to the motherboard, etc. The problem has a lot to do with the case, though. The case is, obviously, proprietary, and allows very few power supplies to fit in the hole which they provided...
I found one which works, the PC Power and Cooling power supply. I bought it, but I think it's defective and I'm pretty upset about that. I think that's the only power supply that will fit with the computer.
So I guess my options are, at the moment, to cut the back of the case a little so that I can fit a power supply (probably a VERY bad idea, b/c then nothing will support the power supply and it'll come crashing down on my MB)...or to just get another PC Power and Cooling power supply.
Have y'all heard anything about PC Power and Cooling PSUs? I guess it was a little inexpensive...$90 for a 350watt... It also had a thermasensor inside which regulated fan speed. I really wanted to get the Enermax power supply, and it WOULD fit with the exception of the contorl knob for the fan and the switch which it has to turn the power off and on...
What makes the power supply weird is the position of the power socket and the position of the fan. If you lay the power supply down on a table (just the power supply, nothing connected to it) so that the fan is on the right, the power socket has to be on the upper left hand corner. Antect's power supplies aren't like this (the power socket is on the BOTTOM left is you lay the PSU down with the fan on the right), along with several other PSUs from other manufacturers...
And also, the Enermax has two fans, and the fan which is on the bottom of the unit would probably end up causing more problems -- the CPU fan is a huge green plastic pipe that leads straight out of the case, and that would sit about .5 inches from the fan at the bottom of Antec's and Enermax's power supply units...
Does anybody have any ideas? I'm not really interested in switching out my case, either. That would be a huge hassle. I guess my being too lazy to build myself a computer was a bad idea and now it's biting my rear end.
<sigh>
"My downfall raises me to infinite heights."
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Anyway...my Dell 250watt (which came with the computer) power supply stunk, and it finally died on me. I was desperately in search for another power supply. Turns out that the newest computers from dell (8200 and above) don't really require a special power supply in regaurds to the connectors which go to the motherboard, etc. The problem has a lot to do with the case, though. The case is, obviously, proprietary, and allows very few power supplies to fit in the hole which they provided...
I found one which works, the PC Power and Cooling power supply. I bought it, but I think it's defective and I'm pretty upset about that. I think that's the only power supply that will fit with the computer.
So I guess my options are, at the moment, to cut the back of the case a little so that I can fit a power supply (probably a VERY bad idea, b/c then nothing will support the power supply and it'll come crashing down on my MB)...or to just get another PC Power and Cooling power supply.
Have y'all heard anything about PC Power and Cooling PSUs? I guess it was a little inexpensive...$90 for a 350watt... It also had a thermasensor inside which regulated fan speed. I really wanted to get the Enermax power supply, and it WOULD fit with the exception of the contorl knob for the fan and the switch which it has to turn the power off and on...
What makes the power supply weird is the position of the power socket and the position of the fan. If you lay the power supply down on a table (just the power supply, nothing connected to it) so that the fan is on the right, the power socket has to be on the upper left hand corner. Antect's power supplies aren't like this (the power socket is on the BOTTOM left is you lay the PSU down with the fan on the right), along with several other PSUs from other manufacturers...
And also, the Enermax has two fans, and the fan which is on the bottom of the unit would probably end up causing more problems -- the CPU fan is a huge green plastic pipe that leads straight out of the case, and that would sit about .5 inches from the fan at the bottom of Antec's and Enermax's power supply units...
Does anybody have any ideas? I'm not really interested in switching out my case, either. That would be a huge hassle. I guess my being too lazy to build myself a computer was a bad idea and now it's biting my rear end.
<sigh>
"My downfall raises me to infinite heights."
-Napoleon Bonaparte