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Originally Posted by Woas  For example a Power Supply unit (PSU) on a friends Dell went bad. He had to buy a special Dell only PSU because they use the non-universal special Dell only kind. This special PSU, (which really isn't special at all, it just has some of the pins on the plugs moved around to match the pins of a Dell motherboard), cost him $100 plus S+H, where as a normal PSU of the same type probably would have been $20 plus S+H. And on top of that, when he was trying to just replace this simple part the Dell people were trying to pitch sales to him! It's not a huge deal but just saying. |
I also had to replace my PSU on my Dell. Not because it went bad but because I got a AGP card that needed more power. I found out about the propietary PSU but the guy at Microcenter helped me out. I bought a little tool called a "Nibbler" which I used to cut out part of the sheet metal which would have covered the socket in the generic PSU. It worked like a charm and is still working.
Can't say I ever ran into a problem with pins on the motherboard. There is an adapter that will make an ATX PSU work on a Dell motherboard. You can find info here:
Adapter for Dell Power Supply. This problem was also with older Dells, the newer ones don't have this problem.
Don't listen when people say that Dell memory is proprietary. I upgraded my system with memory I bought from Crucial and had no problem at all.
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