[tacticalogic]

plug compatible with the Irish power grid.

The case could probably be made to work if you ran it through a Bessemer converter.

[RightWhale]

if you ran it through a Bessemer converter

The sound of vertebra popping as people over at the UN Kyoto hearings sit up quickly. Oh, the humanity, oh, the slag!

[damnlimey]

Can't speak for Packard Bell ,but older Compaqs were extremely un-upgradeable.
My old presario maxed out at 48megs of ram and wouldn't handle more than 8 gigs of hard drive due to Compaq's funky phoenix bios (amongst other things)

As far as the bessemer converter,kind of hard to get in the back yard but the old barbecue and liquid oxygen trick should make for an entertaining upgrade experience