From another angle, I have usually been able to repair an HD that keeps having the same problem pop up in Disk Utility with Disk Warrior. If you have that, Po-en, you might try running it on the disk. A while back you also asked if you could boot on your PowerBook... I think so, but I'm not sure. Just connect them both with FireWire, put the PowerBook in target disk mode, then hold Option while starting up the eMac, and you should get a list of bootable drives. If it appears, just click on it. If not... then maybe it doesn't work. It should, though, since you can boot from an external FireWire drive. Hope that helps!
Cyrus Griffin -------------------- Hobbittech.com Mac Specialist - Low Cost Mac Services in AZ On Mar 21, 2009, at 7:07 AM, Brian Troisi wrote: > > > On Mar 21, 2009, at 9:59 AM, Dan wrote: > >> >> At 9:17 AM -0400 3/21/2009, Brian Troisi wrote: >>> On Mar 21, 2009, at 8:42 AM, John Hanson wrote: >>> >>>> I am a little hesitant to say it's the capacitors. When I had the >>>> capacitors fail on my eMac 1.25ghz, the computer would simply >>>> freeze >>>> up. No kernel panics or anything like that, it just locked up for >>>> no >>>> reason. I hope you get your eMac working soon, they were very good >>>> machines that were quite capable. >>> >>> My friend found a 1.25 Ghz eMac in great condition! After a couple >>> of >>> weeks, the freezings would get worse. He thought it was because I >>> installed Leopard on it, but when he looked inside the machine, he >>> saw >>> the bulging and leaking capacitors. >> >> Sounds like Simon should open the eMac and take a look - a quick >> check for this issue? > I read in some forum that you can see the capacitors via the RAM slot. > I'm not sure though. My friend found out because he gutted the machine > and was going to sell the working parts. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to imaclist-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
