Re: PSU motherboard connector

On Mon, 29 May 2006 00:52:03 -0500, jakdedert <jakdedert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Pooh Bear wrote:

lsmartino wrote:

Michael Black ha escrito:

If you have a connector that is fairly standard, and you change the
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.
Well, Dell computers in the Pentium 3 era used a dedicated PSU with a
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


It 'is' true. It was pretty a pretty hot topic at the time on
motherboard ng's.

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.

Actually when you get to the point where the magic Dell smoke has escaped from
the mobo *and* the PSU, their hold on you has diminished dramatically in a
desktop box.
.

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