[geeks] Cheap Dell Servers

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 03:50:07PM -0500, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>> Those cheap Dell servers that people have been picking up lately...  do 
>> their motherboards conform to a standard form-factor or are they something 
>> proprietary?
> 
> WATCH OUT FOR PROPRIETARY PINOUTS ON THE POWER SUPPLIES.
> 
> Dell used to change the pinout, but use the same connector, so people had
> to buy their replacement power supplies from Dell.  If you used the wrong
> PS, or used a dell PS with a standard mobo, you let the smoke out.
> 
> PC Power & Cooling even has a line of "dell pinout" PSes.

Eww.  I believe I'm just going to try and avoid that mess.

Peace...  Sridhar