A couple of weeks or so ago I posted a tale of woe regarding the 
insufficiency of Dell power supplies these days.  In particular, the 
power supply on my Dell Dimension 4700 rolled over and died very quickly 
after I added an extra SATA disk to it.  In all fairness to Dell, I have 
absolutely no doubt that the power supply that came with the system 
would have run it OK as configured, but it apparently did not have much 
of a margin and the extra disk drive was too much.  OK -- my problem. I 
accept that.

However, I wanted to follow up on  that note and say  that I Googled 
around and found that an outfit called "PC-Power and Cooling" which 
apparently has found a niche in the market (capitalism is a wonderful 
thing, so long as you have boat which will rise with the tide -- people 
without boats most likely drown) and sells Dell-specific power supplies 
which have extra capacity and will support those extra bells and 
whistles that  those of us who were "born to tinker" love to add.  Their 
power supply, which is specific to my computer, arrived today, and 
worked fine. 

So this is just a FYI message.  Hopefully someone, somewhere, will be 
helped by it.  :-)

John


-- 
http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
View/change your membership options at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist