I've noticed that HP, Lenovo, and DELL have all switched (at least on some of their lower/mid level units) to power supplies that only provide a 12 volt rail, and use a new connector, then feed devices off of the motherboard. Most of the time, I only get a 1 year warranty on pc's because the main failures are typically PSU or HDD, the first can be switched out faster then dealing with the OEMs support, and the latter we have to keep HDD's due to the information that may be contained on it; our information security policy does not allow RMAing HDD.
That said, I haven't played with one yet outside of the case to see if one size fits all, but is this a standard pin configuration, and is anyone making replacement supplies outside of going through the OEMs for one? Just wanting to look at what I might need to do in the future.
That said, I haven't played with one yet outside of the case to see if one size fits all, but is this a standard pin configuration, and is anyone making replacement supplies outside of going through the OEMs for one? Just wanting to look at what I might need to do in the future.