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murray · Thu Aug 14, 2003 10:11 pm

I have a friend with an Optiplex GX110 (P3 667 or so) whose power supply has gone on the fritz, and is no longer under warranty or other such nice things. Replacing it would be easy enough, but I remember Dell having previously used power supplies that had the negative-positive rails swapped on the mobo header. The question I pose is whether or not this GX110 was likely to have been made during the period they were doing this. (I don't really remember when exactly the whole business was supposed to have been going on)

Thu Aug 14, 2003 10:24 pm

I guess that suggesting a new Antec power supply, NForce2 motherboard, AthlonXP and PC3200 memory as the solution would be a bit over the top?

Thu Aug 14, 2003 10:27 pm

PC Power & Cooling has Dell power supplies, but the price is a little steep compared to other brands ($89 for either a Silencer 275 or Turbo Cool 300). Their power supply selector lists the OptiPlex GXa and GXi and they both point to the Silencer 275 Dell (though the Turbo Cool would work as well if you don't mind the noise

).

LicketySplit · Thu Aug 14, 2003 10:28 pm

Anyway u look at it u will have to use a Dell power supply since it is one of their propriatary components...and i just betcha u will pay a handsome price for it...the only other alternative would be to take JAE's advice :wink:

murray · Fri Aug 15, 2003 2:03 pm

Turns out it's actually not a GX110- it's some similar spec model, but slim desktop form factor, which I'm betting means some crazy non-standard powersupply size and format. JAE's option is looking more and more tempting.

LicketySplit · Fri Aug 15, 2003 5:14 pm

"ahem...ladies and gentlemen"...."may i have your attention please"?

JAE has just won the salesman of the month award...and for his diligence and perserverance in the sale of said AMD products...we would like to award him a new Hammer sticker for his boxen.(Bet u thought u was gonna get a trip eh?) :lol:

Fri Aug 15, 2003 7:24 pm

"I'd like to thank all the little people who made this possible..."

Seriously, how much did Dell want for the replacement power supply?

rika13 · Thu Dec 11, 2003 11:44 pm

guess why i would never buy a dell and try to steer everyone i know away from that junk

Thebolt · Sat Dec 13, 2003 10:23 pm

wow, i hate dell as well. However i am on one right now. And I'm pretty sure its PS is dying as it has so many blue screens and system errors. I hate dells. On a lighter note, back in early 99' this thing was awesome, brand new with

128mb

of ram(loads for the time) and a 500mhz pentium 3 **drools** a 16mb voodoo 3 top of the line. Unfortunatly, now this 1800$ dream machine has turned into a piece of messed up crap waiting to be replaced and thrown into a closet...

LicketySplit · Sat Dec 13, 2003 10:35 pm

So whats with the XP2400 in your sig? On another thread u mentioned POS computer and i looked at that sig and thought...what is this guy talkin about :roll:

the_silver_bullet24 · Sun Dec 14, 2003 1:55 am

I thought some Dell's you can't just swap because to the werid connector?

LicketySplit · Sun Dec 14, 2003 12:30 pm

You cant...their wiring is reversed..and if you just plug in another one to a dell system it goes POOF :roll:

Sun Dec 14, 2003 12:34 pm

LicketySplit wrote:
You cant...their wiring is reversed..and if you just plug in another one to a dell system it goes POOF

The connector looks like a standard ATX connector, but all the wiring is changed around. And like lickety says...it goes boom when powered up.

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