Snugglebear
[H]F Junkie
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Some time ago my mother broke her Dell V350 by pushing the power button one too many times. The button retainers snapped off and the button fell inside the bezel. It was good for a few laughs and took a couple minutes to fix with super-ultra-mega glue. Unfortunately the glue failed. So tonight I've been working on hacking up a retaining clip to see if that can do the job, but frankly, there's nothing worth a damn inside the bezel to get a grip on with glue, screws, etc., so I'm fairly sure this fix will last a few weeks at most. Replacement bezels from Dell are all system pulls and they haven't come accross one in 9 months. Thus the time has come to start investigating a case transplant.
My family and former employers have been keen on Dells over the years so I've gotten to know many of the Dellisms in the various machines. I know enough to check all the mounting screw hole locations and never to plug in a non-Dell ATX PSU into the boards, among other things. However, this one has me stumped - when I pulled the processor out to take a closer look at the heatsink I found it to be stuck on from the inside. Any case transplant would require some new form of coolong (V350s duct air over a passive heatsink and then out a 90mm fan at the rear), and if I can't get new heatsink on there the whole transplant is pointless. Thus I'm hoping those of you with more experience on Dells and P2s can tell me how to remove/replace the sink, if possible.
While replacing the entire system would be nice, it's not going to happen anytime soon for three reasons: I) I did too good a job maintaining and doing targeted upgrades over the years, II) the only hardware I'm impressed with enough to recommend buying right now are PPC970s/G5 Macs, III) everyone in the family blew through a lot of cash this summer running accross the country tending to sick relatives. It's very hard to tell someone to buy a new machine when I wouldn't buy one and they've got it at idle priority.
Anyway, here are the pics. It's a standard P2-350 SL2U3, SECC cartridge out of a Dell V350 circa 1998. Works fine and has for 6 years. The heatsink is attached to the cartrdige by clips that go down through the whole width of it, leading me to believe removal would require complete disassembly of the cartridge. I've been unable to find instructions on doing so.
My family and former employers have been keen on Dells over the years so I've gotten to know many of the Dellisms in the various machines. I know enough to check all the mounting screw hole locations and never to plug in a non-Dell ATX PSU into the boards, among other things. However, this one has me stumped - when I pulled the processor out to take a closer look at the heatsink I found it to be stuck on from the inside. Any case transplant would require some new form of coolong (V350s duct air over a passive heatsink and then out a 90mm fan at the rear), and if I can't get new heatsink on there the whole transplant is pointless. Thus I'm hoping those of you with more experience on Dells and P2s can tell me how to remove/replace the sink, if possible.
While replacing the entire system would be nice, it's not going to happen anytime soon for three reasons: I) I did too good a job maintaining and doing targeted upgrades over the years, II) the only hardware I'm impressed with enough to recommend buying right now are PPC970s/G5 Macs, III) everyone in the family blew through a lot of cash this summer running accross the country tending to sick relatives. It's very hard to tell someone to buy a new machine when I wouldn't buy one and they've got it at idle priority.
Anyway, here are the pics. It's a standard P2-350 SL2U3, SECC cartridge out of a Dell V350 circa 1998. Works fine and has for 6 years. The heatsink is attached to the cartrdige by clips that go down through the whole width of it, leading me to believe removal would require complete disassembly of the cartridge. I've been unable to find instructions on doing so.