This is possible.  You should look at the rated watts of both power
supplies. If the good power supply's rating is 200 watts, or, the good power
supply is rated GREATER than the bad power supply even if it is less than
200 watts, it will work.    You will notice that the power supply wires
connecting to the motherboard are color coded the same on both power
supplies so it is easy to make this connection properly.   Since the pentium
board is smaller than the 286 board, it may be a little difficult getting it
mounted. Take care to allow no more than 1 metal on metal grounded contact
between the board and case when mounting it so you do not have any
electrical shorts.  Too many steel screws and the risk of a short increases,
these are very hard to find, although they rarely cause permanent damage.
Where I couldn't salvage enough of the little plastic stand-off mounting
posts, I used to use plastic 1/8 inch diameter threaded bolts and washers
from a plumbing supplier.  A short just prevents the board from booting,
typically the boot fails with a lot of beeping, but sometimes the power
supply acts like its gone bad, the fan doesn't even spin.
Tom Turak

-----Original Message-----
From: Kansara Mahendra [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 12:05 PM

I have one old computer with 286 processor working nice but having very
limited working space and handling capacity of WINDOWS 3.1 and DOS

I have second computer Pentium 133 processor having some problem from power
supply.
This machine runs with  WINDOWS 95 is installed and has HDD of 2GB

Is it possible to use only case and power supply of the older computer on
which I will shift the mb and all the components HDD+ZIP DRIVE+CD+3.5 and
5.25 FDD (HDD works just fine but due to the power supply problem, many
clusters are more and more becoming BAD - also it is partitioned because
WINDOWS 95 cant' allow more then 1 or 2 GB but I can access to the
partitionned 'D' drive. There are some downloaded files which I would like
to recover.)

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