Power Supply: Dell GX110 and PowerLeap PL-iP3/T 1400C...

[The EEEdiot]

Okay, long story short:

I bought a Dell GX110 second hand and did some upgrading. One of those
upgrades was the PowerLeap PL-iP3/T 1400C for the CPU boosting the
Pentium-III 500MHz to a Celeron 1400MHz (Celeron III generation?).

Anyway, the upgrade was cool and the computer was cool...everything was
cool...for about six months. I started getting these harddrive issues where
it would just fail. I thought it was the hardware simply failing but it was
the fact that the HD wasn't getting enough voltage/power.

How do I know? I had the power for the PL-iP3/T plugged into the HD
power. When I swapped it to one of the floppy drives everything was fine.

Well, fine until last night. It won't even POST. I *believe* that my
system isn't getting enough juice because the all the devices (except the
MoBo) are all new. I have no reason to suspect a hardware failure with the
exception of the power supply.

It originally came with a 200W power supply and I think a 300W supply
should be sufficient. Now the problem is can I get/find a 300W DELL power
supply for this DELL system? That's the problem with this proprietary
stuff!!

Any thoughts, suggestions?

TIA!!

 

[Karl Burrows]

I had the same problem with one about a year ago. The only place you can
get it is Dell. They were about $40 at the time. You might be able to do a
Google search and find an aftermarket, but I have installation issues with
those.

 

[ric]

It originally came with a 200W power supply and I think a 300W supply
should be sufficient. Now the problem is can I get/find a 300W DELL power
supply for this DELL system? That's the problem with this proprietary
stuff!!

Any thoughts, suggestions?

http://www.pcpowercooling.com/products/power_supplies/selector/dell.htm

 

[kony]

Okay, long story short:

I bought a Dell GX110 second hand and did some upgrading. One of those
upgrades was the PowerLeap PL-iP3/T 1400C for the CPU boosting the
Pentium-III 500MHz to a Celeron 1400MHz (Celeron III generation?).

Anyway, the upgrade was cool and the computer was cool...everything was
cool...for about six months. I started getting these harddrive issues where
it would just fail. I thought it was the hardware simply failing but it was
the fact that the HD wasn't getting enough voltage/power.

How do I know? I had the power for the PL-iP3/T plugged into the HD
power. When I swapped it to one of the floppy drives everything was fine.

Well, fine until last night. It won't even POST. I *believe* that my
system isn't getting enough juice because the all the devices (except the
MoBo) are all new. I have no reason to suspect a hardware failure with the
exception of the power supply.

It originally came with a 200W power supply and I think a 300W supply
should be sufficient. Now the problem is can I get/find a 300W DELL power
supply for this DELL system? That's the problem with this proprietary
stuff!!

Any thoughts, suggestions?

I'd think twice about spending a lot for a PSU only usable
on an old Dell system. More useful might be a standard
power supply and a new motherboard, or upgrading the CPU,
motherboard, memory, plus a standard PSU, then selling the
1.4 Celeron. If your video card is as old as rest of system
I don't know if it'll work on a modern motherboard though,
but today's best integrated video is better than a ~ '99 era
video card anyway.

Then there's an adapter like this:
http://www.endpcnoise.com/cgi-bin/e/dellconverter.html
http://www.siliconacoustics.com/atxtodelad.html
http://www.centrix-intl.com/details.asp?categoryID=60&itempart=DellCv

As for how you know, well you need the 2nd power supply to
check if measuring voltages with a multimeter doesn't reveal
anything unusual. You might tear system down to minimal
components like video, 1 memory module, CPU (preferribly old
CPU if possible), and leave everything else disconnected.

Since it "seems" likely to be power or motherboard, best
course might be the adapter plus standard power supply, then
if it doens't work you're only out the cost of the adapter,
can get a different motherboard and use the new power supply
with it.

 

[Gojira]

I'd think twice about spending a lot for a PSU only usable
on an old Dell system. More useful might be a standard
power supply and a new motherboard, or upgrading the CPU,
motherboard, memory, plus a standard PSU, then selling the
1.4 Celeron. If your video card is as old as rest of system
I don't know if it'll work on a modern motherboard though,
but today's best integrated video is better than a ~ '99 era
video card anyway.

Then there's an adapter like this:
http://www.endpcnoise.com/cgi-bin/e/dellconverter.html
http://www.siliconacoustics.com/atxtodelad.html
http://www.centrix-intl.com/details.asp?categoryID=60&itempart=DellCv

If only someone had come up with an adapter like these for my old Compaq!
Powerleap just came up with 3.0 P4 processors that will work in place of my
old 1.6,but with the old proprietary 235 psu,I can't put in a decent vid
card to make it worth the upgrade.

 

[ric]

Since it "seems" likely to be power or motherboard, best
course might be the adapter plus standard power supply, then
if it doens't work you're only out the cost of the adapter,
can get a different motherboard and use the new power supply
with it.

Or make sure your Dell proprietary PSU is returnable if it does
not correct the problem, which it is at PC Power & Cooling.