[IWE] Power Supply question

[Peter Whysall]

> Greetings, wizards-
>
> I have a friend who has a Compaq thing of some kind.  It's older and it
> steadfastly refuses to tell anyone what model it is  All it says on the
> front is"Compaq"...no "Deskpro" or "Presario" or "Evo" or anything like
> that.  Nothing on the roughly half dozen stickers with innumerable
> barcodes o the back of it, either.  Its all black, in a what they call
> their Compact Workstation Tower (CWT) case.  Has both a CD and DVD
> reader/writer on it, and a (gasp) 5-1/2" floppy drive, too!
>
> And it doesn't work.
>
> At least, not for very log...You power it up, and it runs for about a
> minute, just enough to get XP-Home to display the login screen (she has
> logins enabled, for reasons that I will never know, and am probably
> better not knowing...).  Then there appears to be an abrupt loss of
> power...but not all power.  The CPU fan stops running, the video card
> halts (driving the monitor to black).  But the LEDs on the network port
> (it has integrated networking) continue to flicker, and the power supply
> fan continues to run.
>
> I suspect there is a power supply problem.  I haven't check ed the power
> leads yet tot he MB...I'm going to do that later tonight.  However, I
> had it open on got the model number off the power supply.  It's a
> HP-P251GF3.  Finding a new one of these isn't easy, and the way too
> expensive (between US$200 and 250; you can just about replace the entire
> machine for that).  In poking around the interwebs, I found that HiPro
> makes a similar supply, the 244166-001.  Much of the literature states
> that this power supply will "just drop in " to a number of Compaq PCs,
> mostly Presarios.  That's great, except that I may not have a Presario...
>
> So the question I'm asking o you is, does anyone know if a HiPro
> 244166-001 is a direct replacement forthe massively overpriced
> HP_P251GF3?  I'm pretty sure they are compatible from a plug
> perspective...but I'm not sure the mounting holes and al the physical
> interfaces will line up (you know how Compaq is regarding puting
> standard things in non-standard places on teir boxes...simply to insure
> that you'll have to buy their overpriced crap when a part fails).
>
> Any info would be appreciated.
>
> thanx-
> jb4
>

Take a high-resolution picture of the mass of barcodes on the back and
post it up (you can attach things to messages on this list). Somewhere in
there will be the model number. I'll know it when I see it.