[geeks] Poweredge 1800 hackery

[Mark Benson]

I fell over a thread tgat was about fitting a standard ATX PSU to a PE1800
and apparently the solution involved moving the purple line to a different
pin location. I'm assuming therefore the reverse would be true if you
fitted a standard ATX motherboard. I will test it with a scrap board.

As for Dell's proprietary parts habit, it comes and goes. My Precision 390
uses a bog standard ATX supply. I've also tested for failed supplies on
some Optiplex models fully expecting a standard PSU not to work only to
find ot worked just dandy.

I'm still in 2 minds as I can snag a Precision 490 or 690 for about the
same as a Supermicro Motherboard and it will probably take the CPUs I have
but possibly not the FBDIMMs.

I suppose another big question mark is how the fans behave if I rip the
board and BMC out... hmmm... I think it's getting too complicated?!

On 11 May 2017 3:50 p.m., "Lionel Peterson" <lionel4287 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've seen Dell-specific, third-party replacement power supplies for certain
> desktops at places like MicroCenter, and I've seen adapters that swap pins
> on
> power cords to use standard power supplies with Dell MBs, again for
> desktops.
>
> Lionel
>
> > On May 11, 2017, at 9:21 AM, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > I've investigated a couple of times repurposing salvaged Dell cases, and
> > decided each time that it was cheaper and easier to just throw the
> > cursed thing away.
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