At 8/11/2004 10:34 AM, Jim Bernhardt wrote:

>Bought a Dell Dimension XPS T600R in Feb. 2000
>A week ago it wouldn't boot, called Dell and they walked me through
>trouble shooting. Bad mother board. They told me it would cost $149.00 to
>purchase a new one. Sounds like a lot of money to me. I do have some
>knowledge of computors and think that I could replace it myself buying retail.
>This is the mother board that is in the machine right now:
>CARD (CIRCUIT), PLANAR (MOTHERBOARD), W/O-AUD, TXXXr, COPPERMINE
>My question is what do I replace it with. I was told to check  the power
>supply, ATX or Dell proprietary how do I determine which power supply I
>have? Thanks for any help in advance

See the article at:

http://www.endpcnoise.com/cgi-bin/e/dellconverter.html

to see if your Dell is one of the one's that *isn't* a proprietary power
supply.  Almost all since 1998 were Dell's own design.

Doug

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