Those are notorious for having bad capacitors, from what I've heard
here on the LEM lists.
-Elliott Price
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On Dec 11, 2009, at 2:20 PM, john hobbs wrote:
> Well it finally happened to me.
> Yesterday I was running firefox when the page just got stuck. No
> mouse movement no keyboard input.
> I turned off with the power button let it rest a minute or two then
> turned it back on. All that happens is the ambient light sensor lamp
> glows and then the fans run at high speed. I tried a PMU reset and
> also removed the ram I added but to no avail. I connected a firewire
> startup disc but the machine doesn't even give a startup chime so no
> luck there. I tried starting in target disc mode connected to this
> G4 laptop nothing doing there either.
> iMac is running fully updated Tiger its the last of the G5 imacs
> 2.1ghz.
> Anyone have any ideas please.
> John Hobbs
>
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