On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:03:57 +1000
matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> wrote:

>    
>    >> scrolling across the screen, and then if I turn power off and on, it
>    >> doesn't even get that far, it just sits there.
>    >>
>    >> Any idea what's going on here?
>    >>
>    >
>    > as far as I could remeber, U10s tend to have a crapy power supply
>    > unit. At least there were several problems regarding power supply
>    > units in a german sun message board.
>    
>    I think they're bog standard ATX power supplies, I've seen the 6 pin 
>    extra connector on many PC power supplies and always wondered what 
>    they're good for until i saw an U10 mainboard ;)
> 
> this is for older PC's that needed extra power, basically.  this
> connector has been removed in ATX v2.0 so replacing u10 psu's has
> become significantly more difficult in the past year.

If you have a dead PSU that means you also have a connector. Grafting
an old connector onto a new power supply shouldn't be too hard if you
know the pinout and have some terminal blocks lying around. The machine
is already dead, the worst that can happen is that you also set it on
fire. :-)

-T