On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Simon Royal <m...@simonroyal.co.uk> wrote: > > Hi. > > Well thanks for the help so far trying to sort out my eMac freeze up. > > I have taken the lid off and checked the capacitors and they all look fine. > > There are a lot of them. The one visible from the hatch are fine, have K > written on top. > > There are two left of the optical drive, one has K on top the other has Y. > The one with Y has some white stuff on it on one side but it doesn't look > like a leak and there is no bulging. >
that is a leak the white stuff is worse than bulging. that means it popped your board is bad -- I'm a PC(x86 AND ppc) AND I RUN LINUX!!! Linux is like ice cream. It comes in many flavors and everyone has their favorite, but we all get the same smile regardless of which we choose to scoop. Walter Bagehot - "The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---