[geeks] Poweredge 1800 hackery

[William Barnett-Lewis]

Hmm. I rescued a Dell Optiplex GX260 from the dumpster here at my
trailer park and was hoping to pop something a bit more useful than
the old P4. I presume this is one of the proprietary ones and not ATX
compatable as well?

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I fell over a thread tgat was about fitting a standard ATX PSU to a PE1800
> and apparently the solution involved moving the purple line to a different
> pin location. I'm assuming therefore the reverse would be true if you
> fitted a standard ATX motherboard. I will test it with a scrap board.
>
> As for Dell's proprietary parts habit, it comes and goes. My Precision 390
> uses a bog standard ATX supply. I've also tested for failed supplies on
> some Optiplex models fully expecting a standard PSU not to work only to
> find ot worked just dandy.
>
> I'm still in 2 minds as I can snag a Precision 490 or 690 for about the
> same as a Supermicro Motherboard and it will probably take the CPUs I have
> but possibly not the FBDIMMs.
>
> I suppose another big question mark is how the fans behave if I rip the
> board and BMC out... hmmm... I think it's getting too complicated?!
>
> On 11 May 2017 3:50 p.m., "Lionel Peterson" <lionel4287 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've seen Dell-specific, third-party replacement power supplies for certain
>> desktops at places like MicroCenter, and I've seen adapters that swap pins
>> on
>> power cords to use standard power supplies with Dell MBs, again for
>> desktops.
>>
>> Lionel
>>
>> > On May 11, 2017, at 9:21 AM, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I've investigated a couple of times repurposing salvaged Dell cases, and
>> > decided each time that it was cheaper and easier to just throw the
>> > cursed thing away.
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