Re: [SLUG] small hardware component

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat Aug 16 2003 - 21:13:59 EDT


On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, bpreece1 wrote:

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> From: "Eben King" <eben1@tampabay.rr.com>
> To: "SLUG Mailing List" <slug@nks.net>
> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 2:26 PM
> Subject: [SLUG] small hardware component
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> > I recently came into posession of a Dell computer case. I would use
> > it, except that its switches-and-LEDs connector is proprietary.

> The Dell Cases are Proprietary.There is no such adapater.

Yeah, I couldn't find mention of one on support.dell.com; I was hoping
some enterprising soul had made one.

> Also the power supply pin out is different then a normal atx motherboard!

If the power supply connector is wrong (Are you saying it's physically
standard but electrically proprietary? Like damage-your-motherboard
proprietary?), then I can use a different power supply.

> So best thing I can sugguest is go to dell.com enter the service tag
> number on their site to get the information on that model be it Optiplex
> or Dimensions series.

It's a Dimension XPS D233. I found the information on support.dell.com
about Dimension XPS D*, but it did not get into pinouts. I guess they
assumed only Dell(tm) components would ever go into that case.

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