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Need advice on this slot 1 motherboard

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VERAULT

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Continuing my PC click I just received this board from @DeltaDon Thanks! đź‘Ť

Looking for some info online it seems to have come from a gateway (what are the oddsthis makes my third gatway now).
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Here is a photo of the same board from an ebay listing https://www.ebay.com/itm/295769030680

One of my big concerns is this.. Is this real ATX? I know on my slot 1 dells ( optiplex GX1) they have pseudoatx and its proprietarywill I hurt this board if using a real ATX psu?

Anyway now I gotta find where Iput my slot one cpus.
 
I am not aware of any Gateway with proprietary PSU pinouts. I think that was just a stupid Dell thing.

The manual for this motherboard says it is ATX 2.01 spec.
 
If you're unsure, you can probe the ISA slot to the ATX power connector. The ISA slot has every voltage rail going to it besides the 3.3v rail.
 
I'd recommend recapping it, at least replacing the SMD electrolytics. I have a few Slot 1 boards with SMD electrolytics and they leak as bad as Macs or anything else with them.
 
Plasma said:
I think that was just a stupid Dell thing.
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Just for the record regarding "stupid": it wasn't really stupid. DELL jumped onto the ATX train before the specs were final, so they were very forward-thinking. They made e.g. a Pentium Pro board with ATX in 1995 (which I own, btw), but final ATX 1.0 were not done before mid-1996. Unluckily for DELL, pin-out changed between their first use of ATX and the final specs. But since they had systems out with pre-final pin-out, they had to stick with it for the time being. If anything, it was bad luck, but not stupid.
 
Except for the fact they stuck with that stupid non-standard pinout for years. I had several late PIII Dell systems that had the proprietary pinout for the PSU, and they sold those things interchangeably with regular ATX power supplies, in the same form factor on different models.

Sort of like how Compaq had their crappy oval floppy drive buttons so you could only use their floppy drives.
 
Timo W. said:
Just for the record regarding "stupid": it wasn't really stupid. DELL jumped onto the ATX train before the specs were final, so they were very forward-thinking. They made e.g. a Pentium Pro board with ATX in 1995 (which I own, btw), but final ATX 1.0 were not done before mid-1996. Unluckily for DELL, pin-out changed between their first use of ATX and the final specs. But since they had systems out with pre-final pin-out, they had to stick with it for the time being. If anything, it was bad luck, but not stupid.
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Going to need to see your sources on that. ATX 1.0 was finalized July 1995, and drafts existed before then. Intel's very first ATX motherboard (Thor) has the standard pinout.
 
Timo W. said:
Just for the record regarding "stupid": it wasn't really stupid. DELL jumped onto the ATX train before the specs were final, so they were very forward-thinking. They made e.g. a Pentium Pro board with ATX in 1995 (which I own, btw), but final ATX 1.0 were not done before mid-1996. Unluckily for DELL, pin-out changed between their first use of ATX and the final specs. But since they had systems out with pre-final pin-out, they had to stick with it for the time being. If anything, it was bad luck, but not stupid.
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ThAt maybe so but I had to steal one of my gx1's power supplies because our Varian controller psu at work died and we needed it up and running asap (linear accelerator controller). So i need to source a new psu and havnt even bothered to look for one in years.
 
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