Re: PSU motherboard connector
- From: jakdedert <jakdedert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 00:52:03 -0500
Pooh Bear wrote:
It 'is' true. It was pretty a pretty hot topic at the time on motherboard ng's.
lsmartino wrote:
Michael Black ha escrito:
If you have a connector that is fairly standard, and you change theWell, Dell computers in the Pentium 3 era used a dedicated PSU with a
pinout, you risk getting in trouble when someone connects up that
power supply to their motherboard assuming that common connector is
indeed using the common pinout.
conventional ATX connector but the pin assignment was different from
the standard. They made an arrangement with Intel to get motherboards
using that non standard ATX connector.
Really ? Good Lord ! That's *insane*
Graham
Why did they do it?
Should be obvious: they wanted a captive customer base for replacements. In this case, the poor semi-informed dude who thought he only needed a replacement supply soon found out he also needed a new motherboard...and both had to be purchased exclusively from Dell.
jak
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