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post #21 of 62
1/7/06 at 5:44am
I have A02 and works fine. Those that are getting 110C spikes when unplugging the main power source need to use a little bit more common sense. You are switching from one source of power(AC) to another(battery). You are going from constant power source to something else. Ofcourse there's going to be spikes. You folks need to stop having panick attacks when things aren't perfect all the time. You are dealing with computers...when have things ever gone perfectly?

And if your worry about these less than 1-2 second 110C temperature read you may want to stop unplugging the AC adapter.
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post #22 of 62
1/7/06 at 10:04am
This thread doesn't seem very 'definitive'...
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post #23 of 62
1/7/06 at 12:23pm
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Originally Posted by cypriotsniper
1. you MUST have an A04 revision of the PA-13 Power brick for the upgrade to work. Earlier revisions of this power supply have been used and have caused problems. Revisions A01 and A02 are the suspect revisions noted to-date.

Correction, A02, A03, as well as A04 WORK, it is A00 and A01 that are the suspect revisions known to date.
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post #24 of 62
1/7/06 at 12:35pm
OK i've broken my analysys of this highly detailed information and have come up with a futuristic representation graph of the problem with the 130w AC 's. I understand this might be a little complicated for your fragile minds but please bear with me and try to understand.

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post #25 of 62
1/7/06 at 2:36pm
There are plenty of us running A00 bricks without any problems and from what I have read only a couple people are having problems and it's being blamed on the older brick with no proof, Hell it's probably more likely that they just got bad power supplies than being incompatible.
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post #26 of 62
1/7/06 at 2:46pm
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Originally Posted by lllosingit
There are plenty of us running A00 bricks without any problems and from what I have read only a couple people are having problems and it's being blamed on the older brick with no proof, Hell it's probably more likely that they just got bad power supplies than being incompatible.
/nod The only real conclusion you can come up with the A00 and A01 power bricks are that they are OLDER than the others therefore more likely to be faulty. There's plenty of people that say A00 and A01 work. Some of you guys are trying so hard to prove the A00 and A01 doesn't work that you ignore every post by people that actually use them successfully.
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post #27 of 62
1/7/06 at 2:53pm
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Originally Posted by lealand
/nod The only real conclusion you can come up with the A00 and A01 power bricks are that they are OLDER than the others therefore more likely to be faulty. There's plenty of people that say A00 and A01 work. Some of you guys are trying so hard to prove the A00 and A01 doesn't work that you ignore every post by people that actually use them successfully.
Well my proof was that there was a guy here who had an A00 one and it didn't boot with xps bios, so he bought an A04 and it worked. Also i have come to believe the A00 and A01 are incompatible and NOT just more likely to be deffective because they boot/work fine with the i9300 bios (mine as well as that other guy)

I believe you are the one ignoring posts. The only people i have heard say that the A00 and A01 are fine is people with XPS2's or i9300's with 6800 ultras in them. If memory serves me right i have yet to see a i9300/7800gtx user with an A00 or A01 AC that worked.

please correct me if i am wrong.

Also if it isn't the AC what is it then??? there are a few people who have had this problem. I have also heard that the pin connector on the A00 and A01 are shorter or just flat out different than the later models.
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post #28 of 62
1/7/06 at 3:21pm
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Originally Posted by ||T34418L3|1||
Well my proof was that there was a guy here who had an A00 one and it didn't boot with xps bios, so he bought an A04 and it worked. Also i have come to believe the A00 and A01 are incompatible and NOT just more likely to be deffective because they boot/work fine with the i9300 bios (mine as well as that other guy)

I believe you are the one ignoring posts. The only people i have heard say that the A00 and A01 are fine is people with XPS2's or i9300's with 6800 ultras in them. If memory serves me right i have yet to see a i9300/7800gtx user with an A00 or A01 AC that worked.

please correct me if i am wrong.

Also if it isn't the AC what is it then??? there are a few people who have had this problem. I have also heard that the pin connector on the A00 and A01 are shorter or just flat out different than the later models.
Your proof is one guy?!?! You just summed up your whole arguement there. Genius. Like I said before, could have been a bad power brick. And the reason you don't see an abundant amount of people going "oh mine works" is well...they are probably playing games instead of browsing the forums. Many of the folks that come on the forums are the ones with errors or need information.

EDIT: oh and the user above lllosingit is using A00 and has 7800gtx and his works fine. So please don't use the excuse you havent seen anyone with 9300/7800gtx with A00. Have a nice day.
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post #29 of 62
1/7/06 at 3:25pm
OK I'll correct you, I have an I9300 with a 7800 GTX and others have said the same.
The person your talking about? Did they try a known good A00 power brick?
Sounds to me like they had a bad brick that just happen to try an A04 and now the come to simple but wrong conclusion that it was incompatible and not a bad power supply to start with.
If it was a probelm that more people were having and they tried a known to be good A00 (mine for example) then I would agree.
I think the problem was a couple bad power supplies and thats it.
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post #30 of 62
1/7/06 at 4:09pm
Ok i did say "correct me if i am wrong for a reason", and i didn't say it just to be a prick. Fact is that was all i had going, also both lllosingit and lealand did not state that they had an i9300 or even 7800gtx and its not in their sig's either, anyway lllosingit cleared things up in his next post. But the fact that this A01 AC i have boots up fine with a i9300bios, but once i flash to xps bios, it no longer boots and my only option is to shut down by pressing F1. I can then boot off the 9cell but of course in low power mode.

If my power supply is faulty then why does it work fine with a i9300 bios and not xps?
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post #31 of 62
1/7/06 at 4:22pm
Also I took the hard time and effort to correct my futuristic representation to what we now know is RIGHT.

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post #32 of 62
1/7/06 at 5:27pm
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Originally Posted by ||T34418L3|1||
Ok i did say "correct me if i am wrong for a reason", and i didn't say it just to be a prick. Fact is that was all i had going, also both lllosingit and lealand did not state that they had an i9300 or even 7800gtx and its not in their sig's either, anyway lllosingit cleared things up in his next post.

If my power supply is faulty then why does it work fine with a i9300 bios and not xps?
the following is found in post #5 #6 and #13
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Originally Posted by lllosingit
My I9300 came with an A05 bios installed and I upgraded to the 7800 GTX without a hitch. I'm currently running the A00 power supply with XPS A05 bios and couldn't be happier.
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The problem could be that your power supply is not putting out the correct amp/voltage that the XPS bios calls for but is enough for the regular 9300 bios
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post #33 of 62
1/7/06 at 6:32pm
I have a 130W Rev A04 power supply from Dell, but, I was just sitting here and noticed it makes a weird noise. It sounds like there's a squeeky wheel inside the power brick. That's the best way to describe the noise. Does anyone else have this noise?

You pretty much have to be right next to it in order to hear it or pick it up and put it close to your ear.
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post #34 of 62
1/7/06 at 9:55pm
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Originally Posted by dsorrent
I have a 130W Rev A04 power supply from Dell, but, I was just sitting here and noticed it makes a weird noise. It sounds like there's a squeeky wheel inside the power brick. That's the best way to describe the noise. Does anyone else have this noise?

You pretty much have to be right next to it in order to hear it or pick it up and put it close to your ear.
as long as it works don't worry about it lol
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post #35 of 62
1/7/06 at 10:08pm
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Originally Posted by ||T34418L3|1||
Also I took the hard time and effort to correct my futuristic representation to what we now know is RIGHT.
Much better.... this man can stay... the rest of you are FIRED. We'll rehire you next week... at a lower salary of course.
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post #36 of 62
1/7/06 at 10:19pm
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Originally Posted by ||T34418L3|1||
Also I took the hard time and effort to correct my futuristic representation to what we now know is RIGHT.
HAHAHAHAAH For your contribution to man-kind and all things Dell I highly recommend rep points for u!!!
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post #37 of 62
1/7/06 at 10:53pm
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Originally Posted by cypriotsniper
HAHAHAHAAH For your contribution to man-kind and all things Dell I highly recommend rep points for u!!!
Wait a tick... aren't you the one that started this thread saying they were all bad? Now you're agreeing with the poster of a picture that says you're full of bull?

More flakes in this place than I find in my cereal in the morning.
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post #38 of 62
1/8/06 at 12:48am
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Originally Posted by JaxChris
More flakes in this place than I find in my cereal in the morning.
Haha, I like that one. Rep point for you.

On another note, you might wanna make a post, your count of 666 isn't comforting.
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post #39 of 62
1/8/06 at 6:47am
Noticed that myself... be sure to watch your own post count as your only 4 posts away.... I might recommend a double post somewhere tomorrow. =)
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post #40 of 62
1/8/06 at 7:06am
Thread Starter 
i just commented on his nice artwork
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