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You never ever swap cables between PSUs. It's not a Dell thing - you must use the cables that ship with the PSU. Many people have fried their mainboard like you
by sz4kerto 2y ago
You never ever swap cables between PSUs. It's not a Dell thing - you must use the cables that ship with the PSU. Many people have fried their mainboard like you.
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- delecti 2y agoYou're talking about something different. In the early 2000s, before modular PSU cables, Dell used non-standard PSU power connector wiring arrangements. The 20-pin mobo power plug coming out of the PSU was wired differently than the ATX standard at the time, and swapping hardware could fry a motherboard. https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=339053 https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=339053 Edit: Better source https://superuser.com/questions/905705/atx-dell-psu-to-offical-atx-2-0-spec-pinout https://superuser.com/questions/905705/atx-dell-psu-to-offic...
- SoftTalker 2y agoNvidia does something similar with their server GPU cards, to prevent people from using cheaper desktop GPUs in servers.
- denton-scratch 2y agoYeah, I wasn't "swapping" PSU cables; the cable was part of the PSU. I replaced a Dell PSU with a standard one, and <smoke!> No more motherboard. Manufacturers who pull this type of incompatibility shit risk their reputation. I never went near anything with a Dell label again until last year, when I bought a second-hand laptop (I don't attempt laptop upgrades and repairs).