I have an old Dell L600r, the WORST of the non standard Dells. The only
proprietary thing in it was the PSU and the PSU connectors on the mobo. $159
later for mobo, cpu, ram and PSU had an Athlon XP 2000+ machine. Dell, IBM,
Compaq, etc only assemble machines anymore, they make not a single one.

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"Clive" wrote in message
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"Dr Zoidberg" wrote in message
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Kaptain Krunch wrote:
Dell, Compac, e-machines all DO NOT allow you to change Motherboards
in their machines...

How exactly do they prevent you from doing that?
*some* dells use non standard motherboards but they can still be replaced
if you swap the psu at the same time.
Others are standard boards

The cases are designed so 'stadard' size Motherboards will not fit.

Elonex used to do the same.
Clive