I have an XPS 8000 which died 3 years ago due to motherboard issues. For my replacement, I got XPS 8500 because I wanted to salvage the hard drive from XPS 8000.
Well, the XPS 8500 is now having power supply issues (typical power supply failure symptoms like making grunting noise, power going off, now the starter button fails to light up). Can I replace the power supply from XPS 8000 with my XPS 8500?
To be specific, my XPS 8500 is:
Intel Core i7-3770 with 3.40GHz / 12,000 MB RAM
My XPS Studio 8000 was:
Intel Core i7-860 with 2.80GHz / 8,000 MB RAM.
(It just occurred to me, would my RAM chips be transferable as well? If I can revive my computer, I would like to salvage the RAM chips and see if they can expand my RAM capacity? I'll post this separately in appropriate forums.)
