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Very helpful information and really great

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Nice job on this instruction! It sure helped me replacing the PSU much faster.

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Great instructions - Thank you so much!!

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This was extremely helpful. It's funny that the PSU is the hardest thing to remove, but the first component to go.

Thanks a lot!

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Great information!!! I wish I had found this site before I had to figure out how to remove the PSU myself. You've got the procedure down pat! Thank you.

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Add another name to the list of grateful people. Thanks very much for posting this!

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Hi, what a lifesaver! Thanks heaps for this info

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It is excellent, great instructions and very helpful - Thank you so much!!
Yours,
HLee

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Thank you. Your instructions prevented me from nearly wreaking my d530!

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Thank You. I've ruined way too many of these trying to get the PSU out.

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excellent instruction though the screws on the back werent exacttly located in the same place. now to put it back once i order it

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I have one of these units.the fan on the power supply stopped,so being an old man of 80 and not much dough.I decided to take out the power supply myself,after removing a number of screws, and a bit of leverage I got the damn thing out,without touching the mother board,the fan is removed,the whole power supply is sitting on the top its still connected,I have a household fan blasting air in the top as the top plate is off the power supply it has been running all day for almost a fortnight,and it will stay that way untill I can get another fan and shove it all back together,I thought you might like to hear this story,Thanks again a good site Mr R gray

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Awsome. thanks so much.

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Thanks for posting this how-to. This was the third time we have replaced one of these PSU's and we can never remember the weird things you have to do in order to take them out.

Thanks again!

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wow - now i don't feel badly about having disected the whole case pretty much, to figure out how to get the ps out <laughs>

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Thank you for posting this useful article. It most likely saved me from buying a new CPU!

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Hi All,
Where can I find a reasonable price replacement power supply for this unit in US or Canada?
Thanks for any help and Thank You for this most helpful post. HP would not help at all.
Jim

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Excellent...... 10/10. Thank you for this very helpful walk through. Saved me hours of head scratching to try and figure out how to replace the psu.

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GREAT !!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks

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plz also tell how to remove processor fan and heatsink

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thanks a million

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how to remove the power cord connector from psu to have the board completely free??

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Thank you for posting this information. I was able to replace the power supply

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Cheers, HP make great machines. but PSUs are a pain in the arse!

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Thanks for the tutorial, I don't have much money, but I will pay if I have to , to get bigger pictures of what your doing there. It's very hard to see. please let me know how much, my email is milleniumchief@hotmail.com

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Zikomo! Almost pulled my hair out trying to replace one of these...

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Great instructions. I had the drive bay tray removed and all before discovering this article. Thanks

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How do you jump start this power supply

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How do you jump start this power supply

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Never took one of these apart before until today, thank you from saving me from removing every screw until something broke!!

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Thank you so much !!! I´ve had my HP dead for several months and you helped me bring it back to life !

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Your description was extremely helpful. Today I replaced a blown-up PSU in less than 1 hour, following your instructions.

Many thanks from the Netherlands

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I have a HP Compaq netvista IBM which I have had a few years but I am wanting to change everything out of that tower into another tower but I am having problems removing the motherboard.
The problem I am having is.... I have removed all the screws from the motherboard, it seems to lift when I lift each corner except for the corner where the fan sits.
I have looked and looked to make sure there is not another screw left in but I can't see one.
Is there something else I need to remove to get the motherboard out? Or do I need to remove the fan etc to remove motherboard?
Regards
jayne

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U r awsome Srinivasa Mylaru

U r the expert u saved mu lot of money..

Tell me how much u need, i am ready to pay u.

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Thank you very much for this tutorial :) greetz from germany

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Missleading
No need to remove the motherboards it is a 5 min job to remover the PSU's in these.

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CAN WE THROW THE HOODLOCK AND TAMPER SWITCH AWAY when we reassemble?

thanks sooo much

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thanx alot u did a great job it was very helpfull.

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PS-5181-Hfe Power Supply Burn pls i want daigram

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Thank you, Thanks you, Thanks you... got it out. I never would have figured it out myself!!!

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Had to fix up an old machine. Tnx for the manual. What a crappy design !!!

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PERFECT INSTRUCTION. THANX A MILLION.

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Why do I find it's impossible to lift the drive tray? Did I miss something? Pls help!

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Excellent, thankyou

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thank you, I was racking my brian trying to figure out why it wasnt coming out. But this made is very easy.

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Superbly illustrated- Was racking my brains with thIS bad boy! A truly awful design!!!

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HP compaq worked stable until power supply stopped one day. It refused to response to any button after electrical power recovery. I opened the slim desktop as usual. However, I gave up after nearly one hour fighting and came to ask Dr. google.
Thank you very much for your works.

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WRONG! if you remove the speaker and the black tamper switch you have not to remove the mainboard, just take out the screws in the case behind the power supply so you can move back it a little to unlock it from the base of case and without speaker and black tamper switch you can set free it easily.
Sorry about my English, I tried to help at least.

Este tutorial esta equivocado, desmontando el altavoz interno y el switch, se puede sacar sin tener que desmontar la placa base: Se desmontan los tornillos que hay detras de la fuente, para que ceda la chapa trasera de la caja, podras mover un poco la fuente hacia atras y asi liberarla de la caja, en realidad es el altavoz y el switch lo que impiden elevar la fuente. Para desmonar el altavoz hay un tornillo junto al switch y otro en la parte frontal de la caja.
Espero haya ayudado.

Saludos!

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Thanks for the instructions. Great healp!

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Thanks. Instructions great.

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very help full info and screen shots thankyou

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JUAN IS RIGHT. you dn't have to remove the motherboard or even back panel.
you can remove the case switch and speaker, loosen the back panel at the PSU side and open it out a bit, then slide the PSU to the back of the case and lift it up and free.
getting the speaker out is not easy. there's the front and top screws, then slide it around and sideways. I bent up the case bit that gets i the way and cut it off when the psu was out - not drastic.

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Kudos! God bless you for your generous and caring spirit.

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Gosh. I had a hard time trying to figure out how to remove this. Thank you for sharing.

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Thanks a million for the great instruction which turned my what seemed like a hopeless situation into success.

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Thanks a lot for the help...

I only wish I knew this earlier!

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Hi all, I am late for the party......

Thanks for the great instruction.

Does anyone know how to replace the d530 PSU with a normal ATX PSU ?

Thanks in advance.

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Has anyone replced a PSU for the D530 with a standard ATX PSU, if so can you give me any pointers.
I have just used the guide to remove the PSU, very good and clear instructions, many thanks.

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awesome ideas...work great. thanks

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I have an HP Compaq D530 sff computer. The computer won't power on although there is power supply to the mother board. But the Hard Drive indicator lid keeps blinking red. I've confirmed that the POWER SUPPLY UNIT (PSU) is defective having tried another PSU from a working computer.
Does anyone know what might be wrong with the HP Compaq D530 sff's PSU? Does anyone know how to fix it??? Please, help!!! email me eron.ox007@ymail.com
Thank you in advance

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This post was a life saver, on a side note isnt it sad some of us still use this pc?

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Thank you very much! This was extremely helpful! I would not have been able to figure it out without this guide!

A

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Thanks so much for the pics. I have a few of these HP d530 SFF machines. I want to upgrade to Windows 7, which requires a video card be installed in the 8x AGP slot. There are plenty of cheap decent low-profile AGP cards out there for around $30 (nvidia geforce 6200), but they require at least 250W PSU (300W recommended). I have not been able to find an upgrade PSU (250W or greater) in this form factor. Does that mean I need a new case? Or is anyone successfully running windows 7 (aero) on an hp d530 with a geforce 6200 using the original 185w psu?

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This is all I need it : ) Thanks

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Legend, bookmarked...i inherited about 40 of these gits with my latest job and they burn PSU's at a crazy rate

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I'm in the UK and have just replaced the PSU in a D530 SFF with generic 300W one from CPC:

http://cpc.farnell.com/_/mpt-303/psu-300w-atx-tfx1-psu-tfx1-300w/dp/CS11791

It's not an exact replacement, but does fit nicely into the case.

When you first boot up you will get an error message saying "920-Fan Command 2 Pin Connector from Power Supply Not Connected".

The standard HP PSU has a "fan command" connector that isn't present on standard PSUs (a small two pin plug with white/red and black wires).

Simply cut the plug off the old PSU leaving a short length of wire on the plug and connect a 1K resistor between the wires. Plug the connector back into the motherboard and you will no longer get the error message at boot.

Hope this helps.

MG-J

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Thanks!!!

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Thanks for the instructions and thanks for the tip Mark G-J. I have removed many power supplies but never one so difficult.

still gold after all this time, thanks for the concise instructions. I noticed some seem to think it easy to try and get the PSU out without removing the M/Board - good luck with that.

Fantastic instructions, saved me a huge amount of messing about. Thank you.

thanks for the info.. always handy

Thank you thank you thank you. Found this article when I was just about to go crazy ;)

Got mine out without pulling the motherboard. Just had to completely remove the back panel.

Aussie summer, just added a low profile Nvidia MX-4000 to this baby. PSU running rather hot, but fan very quiet. How do I speed up the fan _before_ the PSU blows its stack? Seems like it has a faulty thermistor, just will not speed up when it needs more cooling

Well I did take the PSU out, and removed the fan. I confirmed that (a) the fan was spinning just fine at high speed when supplied from a 12 volt battery; and (b) there appears to be a thermistor component soldered to the PSU circuit board RIGHT NEXT TO the fan!!

This would appear to be a serious design fault causing premature PSU failure due to incorrect thermistor placement, so the fan is "tricked" into believing the PSU is cool when really it may be boiling down the back end.

Suggested solutions:

(i) Reverse-mount the fan so it "sucks" air in from the back. The side louvres will probably get preference, so the rear components may not get adequate air flow. Furthermore I'd be blowing hot air under the floppy, and towards the HDD;

(ii) Cut the fan's red and black wires close to the PSU circuit board, route them outside the PSU case (easy!) when re-attaching the fan with its 4 bolts, and hot-wire it to a 12 volt line (yellow+. black-) to any of the hard/floppy devices, taking care to cover the soldered connections with long-life insulation tape.

I chose option (ii) and although my machine is now making more whining fan noise, I am confident the PSU will no longer be routinely running over-temperature.

Sheesh HP! Shame on your design flaw....

thank you for this info.i got stuck & this is just what i needed.

Thanks for the great guide guide - spot on

Great job and great guide

LONG LIVE AND MORE POWER,, ASTONISHING,VERY VERY HELPFUL EVERYTHING IN DETAILED..

Excellent instructions, thanks! You have made my day a lot easier.

plz tell me how to jump start this supply.
plz plz

how to jump start this supply.

my computer hp d530 red light bilink on front plz solvemy this problem

This did not help. There a no screws on the back.
The PSU goes accross the entier back of the computer, plus the back of has a different layout.

good for me

I had to remove the motherboard in my hp d530. maybe differant types are made. with everything removed the ps still would not come out. there were metal bands connecting the ps on the bottom of the chasis. I had to to litterly pry the power supply out with a crowbar just for the hell of it. Quite clear Hp didn't want customers to replace this power supply.

Echo the "got stuck....excellent job" comment(s) above. Have replaced several power supplies in my day, even one of these goofy long ones, but never seen one where you had to remove the back, manipulate MB, etc. I had actually removed the corner screws from the rear panel and then thought, "This can't be right" and put them back. Thanks again for a great tutorial!

What a pig! Thanks to your excellent instructions however I was able to complete the job. The warning not to trap the cable loom against the fan - it is rather a tight fit!

I replaced one of these PSU's today. I removed the speaker then the PSU would slide out. I did not remove the motherboard or any of its screws.

Be sure to check the BIOS battery while you are in there.

How repair PDP124P 308439-001 the sam eas photo.
Anyone schematic diagramm ??Any Repair maual?

Thanks alot. Very helpful. ..

Thanks very much!

hey dude....can i replace the d530 PSU unit with normal desktop PSU unit not the slim 1 like this...

Thank you very very much ! Its really helpful !

What threw me initially is that almost everything in the D530 can be removed/replaced without tools, including the motherboard. Even the lid has unusually readable diagrams showing how. I bought several of these a few years ago so I have "spare parts" :), and when it came time to replace the power supply, I figured, "Okay, so where's the cute little green release latch?... uhhh, hello little green release latch? Where the &#(!! are you?!?"
So google to point me to the rescue, to wit, this page :)

I really couldn't see how to get the darn PS out... and I got nearly fooled because when one removes the single screw holding the PS to the back panel, the PS will slide forward about 1/8", a damn teaser :) If HP had designed the securing slider holes in the base so that it slid forward to remove rather than backwards, it would make this a lot easier (no need to remove rear panel & motherboard).

To answer a couple of questions and observations in many of the comments:
1) yeah, you can probably get the power supply out without lifting the motherboard, but there is risk of damage to the motherboard because the clearance is *very* tight if not outright overlapping. The motherboard is very easy to disengage, I think one would have to be something of a twit to not lift it just for sake of the principle.
2) Any regular ATX power supply will work as long as it supplies the minimum current specifications for the various voltage rails (+/- 5, +/- 12, +3.3), you just won't be able to put it inside the SFF case. You will have a "bag on a box" which is fine if you don't mind function over form.
3) I wouldn't even try running window7 or above on this machine. Memory is limited to 4GB which is pretty much what I would consider minimum for running win7 for much more than email or light browsing. The processor is a single core 3GHz, and while it does provide for hyper-threading, this is really no substitute for a multi-core CPU which win7 is designed to take advantage of.

You know, in the bad old days, I used to be able to fix computers by reading books. Alas, in the last 20 years computers have evolved into so many different form factors that one simply can't keep up by just knowing theory and general experience. Nowadays I can't even imagine fixing some of the stuff I do without the benefit of Google and the internet. Getting into almost any laptop is usually a very specific sequence which must be done just right. Likewise with this silly PS for the D530.

As with anything else, it's quite simple and easy ONCE YOU KNOW HOW :) And have somebody who's been there before and is willing to share their experience with others.

Kudos to the author, a fine job, well done. Top drawer.
J

This was most excellent, and pulled us out of the fire after a complete PSU failure!

Things could have been veerrrrrry bad here today without this clear, step - by - step.

Truly wonderful. We are grateful!

I NEED HELP RECONNECTING ALL WIRES. I HAVE THE REPLACEMENT POWER SUPPLY BUT DONT REMEMBER HOW TO RECONNECT IT.

PLS HELP!!

Nine years later this guide is still getting used!!
Thanks so much, very clear instructions and photos. Just changed my PSU with your help, cheers :-)