[Novalug] Power supply upgrade

[Moe]

Rich

You are aware, of course, of Dell's brain-dead proclivity of quietly 
scrambling the connections on that industry-standard 20 pin connector.
I was introduced to this unannounced proprietary feature when I lost 
a dell motherboard and a new, replacement (standard) power supply.

D'ya s'pose that HP subcontracted their "inexpensive" pc to dell to 
save a few bucks?

Moe
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Rich Goodwin wrote:
> 
> I bought am inexpensive HP from Office Depot.  My intent is to run
> Second Life on it under Linux.  I bought an nVidia 8600 GTS video card
> which requires extra power.  Since original power supply is 250w  and
> won't support the video card.
> 
> So I bought a 530w power supply from Microcenter.  I connected the ATX
> power (20 pin) and CPU fan just as the original PSU.  I then connected
> the hard and DVD drives.  I have not yet installed the video card.
> 
> The system booted with the 250w PSU.  It will not boot with the 530w!  I
> don't get a POST beep or any video.  CPU fan spins.  DVD drive works.
> Hard drive light appears to be lit.  But the system doesn't boot!!
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Rich
> 
> For thos interested - the system docs are at
> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00906129&lc=en&cc=de&dlc=&product=3397528
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> 
> GPG/PGP Key Id: 1B257AEC from pgp.mit.edu
> 
> Remember, all Windows machines are, by definition, fault tolerant.
> 
>               They run Windows don't they!!
> 
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