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If the dimensions of the Powerman are the same, plug it in. Same ATX-type
connector on the Compaq, right? AFAIK, Compaq never corrupted the ATX connector
spec, like Dell did with its P2 and P3 systems. The older Dell systems are/were
a major pain because the Dell motherboards required Dell power supplies, and
there was no way to mix a Dell component with a standard one. This discouraged
people from doing motherboard swaps, something Compaq did in even earlier times
with wierd shapes to motherboards... Ben Myers
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:03:00 -0400, "Uncle Vinnie"
<vinrin57@nospam.optonline.net> wrote:
>I hear you Ben... amazing...but I'm not surprised.
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>You, by chance, wouldn't know for sure if this is a standard ATX power
>supply, would you?? I have a spare Powerman 230w I was going to put in....
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><ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
>news:42dfb95c.1271410@nntp.charter.net...
>> Upgrading to a higher wattage power supply would be prudent. Compaq, HP,
>> eMachines, IBM, Packard Bell (RIP), all of them shipped Pentium-class
>> computers
>> with 145w (or even less) power supplies. Their working assumptions for
>> doing so
>> are two-fold: cost savings and support ONLY for the configuration shipped,
>> with
>> little margin for error.
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>> This is yet another example of how much personal computers have become
>> commodities. Sadly, unlike other commodities (apples, oranges,
>> automobiles),
>> the consumer has little or know opportunity to see what is under the hood
>> of a
>> computer before buying. So name brand manufacturers continue to build
>> consumer-oriented boxed with cheap junk parts inside, showing great
>> disrespect
>> for their customers. Business-class computers are generally better made,
>> because a large enterprise has the clout to park all the malfunctioning or
>> poorly made computers on the loading dock and tell the manufacturer to
>> take them
>> all away... Ben Myers
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>> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:43:39 -0400, "Uncle Vinnie"
>> <vinrin57@nospam.optonline.net> wrote:
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>>>Thanks, HH.
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>>>It appears to be a micro ATX, and the PS appear to be standard. The part
>>>numbers I refer to are the ones on both the board and the PS.
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>>>I cannot understand how the Power Supply can only be 145 watts. These
>>>references are constant everywhere I look, and what I have from Compaq.
>>>The
>>>unit is running maxed out- 1.2 Tualatin (w/adapter), 512meg mem, floppy,
>>>40g
>>>HD, DVD, CD/RW, 512 mem (2x256's), modem, firewire, NIC, all 4 USB's
>>>used...
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>>>I was thinking of adding a 2nd HD, how can this all run on only 145
>>>watts???
>>>My daughter's Intel needs 300+, same config except that she also has a TV
>>>board?
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>>>Hence, why I was thinking of upgrading the PS to a 230 I have on hand...
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>> <SNIP>
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