Swapping PSUs

[kahtovie]

'ello there. I recently had the wonderful experience of building a computer with a fried psu...quality isn't what it used to be. I would like to get this computer up + running just to make sure everything is fine, but I don't have a spare psu to use, except one in a Sony Vaio. This sony vaio uses a p4 (northwind?), and it's a 300w unit. I have the model no. off of the power supply. It's manufactured by SMB, but I think it may be a custom-order psu by sony. Now, the computer I built uses an athlon board/processor. I was wondering--is it possible to use the psu from the sony? Are there any fundamental differences between athlon and p4 psus (I didn't think so...)? Well, thanks for any help!


Cheers,
KT

 

[kahtovie]

Sorry--I should of added specs of the new comp:

it uses an amd 1800+ tbird on a k7n2 msi board.

 

[Crashman]

The last Sony board I looked at was the Asus P2B-1394. This was a standard ATX board using standard power. I doubt Sony has gone proprietary.

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