- Dec 7, 2011
- 3,759
- 545
- 126
For a potential client. He said he installed a new psu and it started smoking so he thinks it fried his Compaq am2 mobo. He said it's a reg. sized tower, so my question is, will the standoffs on a micro atx board like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157274
match an atx factor from Compaq? I haven't actually diagnosed his problem, just had a brief conversation over the phone with him. Haven't seen his rig or anything yet. He's just fishing for parts etc. Normally I wouldn't bother, but I'm trying to build client base. My hunch tells me no, this will not work (at least properly) because I wouldn't be able to use the correct standoff mounts and might have some unused slots which wouldn't be good. He couldn't even tell me what cpu he had, except that it was an AMD 64.
He installed a GTS 450 which reqs 400w psu, so he got a Kentech(?) 400w psu and tried to power it up lol.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157274
match an atx factor from Compaq? I haven't actually diagnosed his problem, just had a brief conversation over the phone with him. Haven't seen his rig or anything yet. He's just fishing for parts etc. Normally I wouldn't bother, but I'm trying to build client base. My hunch tells me no, this will not work (at least properly) because I wouldn't be able to use the correct standoff mounts and might have some unused slots which wouldn't be good. He couldn't even tell me what cpu he had, except that it was an AMD 64.
He installed a GTS 450 which reqs 400w psu, so he got a Kentech(?) 400w psu and tried to power it up lol.