[geeks] Dell PSU punt

[Joshua Boyd]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:38:22AM -0500, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:25:53AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > At some point they stopped doing that, but I don't know when.  I have a
> > full-tower case I salvaged recently that looked from the outside to be a
> > perfectly good case, but appears on the inside as though it will ONLY
> > accept a Dell motherboard.  And I still haven't managed to obtain a
> > pinout for the chassis connector on the Dell tape-library drive housing
> > I have, which I'm still hoping to convert into an external case for my
> > LTO-2 drive.
> 
> Two years ago or so I got three eMachines from another list member.  I
> was pleasantly surprised to find that two of them were actually very
> nice small ATX cases once I removed the power supplie and
> motherboard and put my own in.  The only complaint I have about the case
> is the emachine logo and the floppy drive, and the floopy drive is only
> a complaint because I don't want to bother with one anymore.

Gah, I hit send to soon.  I also meant to say that the Optiplex 745s,
755s, and Precision T3500s at work have a wierd internal layout that
makes me think they might not be using ATX, but I suppose they could use
a normal PSU.