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| shardian:
--- Quote from: david656 on June 19, 2007, 04:50:07 pm --- any one have a nice enviromently friendly way of fixing this ??? --- End quote --- No problem: Insert the following addendum steps after sledgehammering as follows: 1a) Use soldering iron, pliers, and other specialty tools to reduce entire board to its elemental components. 1b) take separated piles to recycling plant. |
| SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: david656 on June 09, 2007, 11:20:36 am ---i got a nice new MoBo E139761 AA 681533-312 DELL REV. A02 BUT it dun't work ! <SNIP> any idea's the PSU to MoBo has pin 18 missing and the MoBo has pin 19 missing !!!! wierd --- End quote --- --- Quote from: david656 on June 19, 2007, 04:50:07 pm ---and wait for it.......................... :D no pins to conect a on button ! --- End quote --- The problem is it's a DELL. For some years (not sure if yours falls in this range) DELL used a proprietary power supply that was not compatible with standard PSU's. In fact, plugging in a standard ATX power supply resulted in a dead motherboard, period. As far as I know, DELL motherboards are usually still are not compatible with ATX supplies, but the incompatibility is not as risky or dangerous. It is a nightmare working with these boards. You see no pins for a power button for the exact same reason. DELL typically uses a proprietary daughter board that houses lights, power and reset with a funky cable. It is not compatible with standard ATX case wiring. You might find the daughter card on eBay. I'm all for the preservation of hardware, but DELL's fall into a rare class of hardware I would rather see destroyed than preserved. The level of proprietary hardware manufactures like DELL, Compaq, and others employ often border on insane and maddening. If you come across their parts, scavange what you can, destroy the rest, then buy a complete PC on the cheap. Or better yet, put one together using standard components. |
| david656:
humm i detest DELL but i got this board at a carboot and wait for it a £1 people a £1 had to get it !! i might check ebay see if they have something of a similar spec |
| DaOld Man:
Check out this site. Sometimes they have real good deals on re-furbished PC's. http://directron.com/systems.html I agree with the other posts, SC the dell... |
| david656:
WoW my school was having a clear out and i got boxes of stuff for FREE !!!! 6 Floppy drives 3 CD-ROM drives LOADS of ISA and PCI cards, some SERIAL and PARRALEL, as well as some 16bit SOUND BLASTERS !!!!! got 2 AGP VIDEO cards a Mini-ATX board that i think works im not sure yet got to test it 2 PC's, one worked after a few scans and runns PERFECT Windows 98, the other a nice small one but DEAD, teh PSU is a AT without the switch, soo anyone know where i can get a replacement for that a bag of IDE cables a few ATX PSU's and a few small PSU's that i think fits ITX cases (not sure) oh and a AMAZING RM NB200 LAPTOP from teh 80's ! although have been fiddling and it powers up and gets to disk boot faliure so just a matter of sorting out the HDD !!!! not bad for free !!!! SO any idea's on teh AT PSU problem, btw when you connect a AT PSU with switch and force power into it the lights do come on !!! so either its a dodgy PSU OR teh switch could be playing up, help needed ! any idea's?????? |
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