Spare hardware sought!
Greetings Folks! Hoping you had a good Christmas, and wishing you a Happy New Year. I have an old desktop box whose PSU has blown. So I'm looking for a compatible box to which I can transfer the hard drives and PCI cards. Basic requirements: Working AT box with motherboard & CPU, 64MB RAM or more, space for 4 IDE hard drives, PCI slots (for monitor, parallel, ethernet, etc. cards), PS/2 mouse and KB ports. So if any of you shed-stackers has something suitable, I'd be very pleased to hear. Willing to pay a reasonable reward for a suitable box of tricks! Best wishes to all, Ted. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@wlandres.net> Date: 29-Dec-2011 Time: 11:24:50 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:33:08AM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
I have an old desktop box whose PSU has blown. So I'm looking for a compatible box to which I can transfer the hard drives and PCI cards.
Quick question, why not just replace the PSU? Adam -- New signature required, suggestions on a post card please.
On 29-Dec-2011 Adam Bower wrote:
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:33:08AM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
I have an old desktop box whose PSU has blown. So I'm looking for a compatible box to which I can transfer the hard drives and PCI cards.
Quick question, why not just replace the PSU?
Adam --
If I could find another: DTK COMPUTER SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY MODEL PTP-2008 then I would happily do so! It's a complicated-looking item, with a cable from mains input to the unit, a cable from the unit to a push-button switch on the front of the computer box, a cable from the unit to mains output on the back of the box, and a host of cables which connect to the motherboard and other items; I would want to be absolutely sure that the connectors for the latter in a replacement PSU were compatible with the existing ones. I've had it looked at by a friend who is an expoerienced computer maintenance person, and he says he's never seen anyrthing like it! Ted. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@wlandres.net> Date: 29-Dec-2011 Time: 12:39:16 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:46:14 -0000 (GMT) (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@wlandres.net> allegedly wrote:
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If I could find another:
DTK COMPUTER SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY MODEL PTP-2008
then I would happily do so! It's a complicated-looking item, with a cable from mains input to the unit, a cable from the unit to a push-button switch on the front of the computer box, a cable from the unit to mains output on the back of the box, and a host of cables which connect to the motherboard and other items; I would want to be absolutely sure that the connectors for the latter in a replacement PSU were compatible with the existing ones.
A quick bing shows them to be popular in germany. German ebay seems to have something for around 10 euros. Also loads of references (and cross references) to this site: http://www.webx.dk/oz2cpu/radios/psu-pc1.htm which is quite amusing. Mick --------------------------------------------------------------------- The text file for RFC 854 contains exactly 854 lines. Do you think there is any cosmic significance in this? Douglas E Comer - Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume 1 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc854.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------
At Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:02:19 +0000, mick wrote:
A quick bing shows them to be popular in germany.
Bing? -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:32:39 +0000 Richard Lewis <richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk> allegedly wrote:
At Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:02:19 +0000, mick wrote:
A quick bing shows them to be popular in germany.
Bing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_%28search_engine%29 I dislike Microsoft slightly less than I dislike Google. And perversely I trust MS more. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The text file for RFC 854 contains exactly 854 lines. Do you think there is any cosmic significance in this? Douglas E Comer - Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume 1 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc854.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------
On 31/12/2011, mick <mbm@rlogin.net> wrote:
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:32:39 +0000 Richard Lewis <richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk> allegedly wrote:
At Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:02:19 +0000, mick wrote:
A quick bing shows them to be popular in germany.
Bing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_%28search_engine%29
I dislike Microsoft slightly less than I dislike Google. And perversely I trust MS more.
A while ago now, someone on this list flagged this lot up: https://www.ixquick.com who don't log your IP address. Bev.
On 29/12/11 12:46, (Ted Harding) wrote: It's a complicated-looking
item, with a cable from mains input to the unit, a cable from the unit to a push-button switch on the front of the computer box, a cable from the unit to mains output on the back of the box, and a host of cables which connect to the motherboard and other items; I would want to be absolutely sure that the connectors for the latter in a replacement PSU were compatible with the existing ones
That's just a standard AT (pre ATX) power supply. I am guessing the mainboard connectors are two flat pin plugs next to each other with all the grounds (black) in the middle ? If it is AT then sounds like the whole machine was well overdue replacement anyway as it won't have been manufactured this century. I can have a poke around in the garage of doom but any of the machines there will at the very least be missing Hard Drives and I suspect the IDE based machines went to the skip a long time ago so most likely you'd be needing to grab a SATA disk from somewhere. What PCI cards do you need to add, is it stuff likely to be integrated to the mainboard on a modern machine ? (note it is possible to jury rig a modern ATX power supply to work with a AT case and mainboard, However is certainly isn't recommended)
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:28:54PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On 29/12/11 12:46, (Ted Harding) wrote: It's a complicated-looking
item, with a cable from mains input to the unit, a cable from the unit to a push-button switch on the front of the computer box, a cable from the unit to mains output on the back of the box, and a host of cables which connect to the motherboard and other items; I would want to be absolutely sure that the connectors for the latter in a replacement PSU were compatible with the existing ones
That's just a standard AT (pre ATX) power supply. I am guessing the mainboard connectors are two flat pin plugs next to each other with all the grounds (black) in the middle ?
I may have an old AT supply knocking around, I'll check when I'm over in the garage in a few minutes. Can take a picture if it might help.
If it is AT then sounds like the whole machine was well overdue replacement anyway as it won't have been manufactured this century.
I can have a poke around in the garage of doom but any of the machines there will at the very least be missing Hard Drives and I suspect the IDE based machines went to the skip a long time ago so most likely you'd be needing to grab a SATA disk from somewhere.
What PCI cards do you need to add, is it stuff likely to be integrated to the mainboard on a modern machine ?
(note it is possible to jury rig a modern ATX power supply to work with a AT case and mainboard, However is certainly isn't recommended)
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I have an old desktop box whose PSU has blown. So I'm looking for a compatible box to which I can transfer the hard drives and PCI cards.
Ted, I've an old Dell Dimension 2400 gathering dust you can have; it's a P4 with, I think, 256MB of RAM (possibly 512MB). Not sure how many drive bays it has, but you can find out yourself at http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim2400/en/sm_en/index.htm You'll need to collect it from Ipswich, though. Greg
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