Well tonight I tried this fix, proposed by Sri and IT WORKS BY GAD!
Any users of British keyboards will find the backtick ` next to the
letter Z on the keyboard BTW.
The eMac now starts fine, and runs well. I tried looking at a WMV
file using VLC and it runs but doesn't show any video, so I
Hi Sri...
That's really useful information you give me there - I was
wondering why the beast is so docile in safe mode, when it totally
hangs in normal boot!
I shall definitely play with this when I've cleared a little space on
the bench for it: it's been put out of the way for now
Hi Dan,
I had this same problem on a 1.25ghz G4 emac. The bad caps are on a
circuit that connects to the Radeon chip, and it's only when the
Radeon chip is active that you get the errors and random freezes. (It
gets worse once the chip heats up, which is why you can generally use
it for 5-10
Does it pass AHT?
Well I finally ran to earth my Apple Hardware test disc for eMac.
Unfortunately the eMac it came with was a 1GHz or earlier (SW version
1.2.2s/n 691-4177-A)
so when I restarted with the CD it said that it could not run and
offered me a restart.
So no further on.
Does it pass AHT?
Well I finally ran to earth my Apple Hardware test disc for eMac.
Unfortunately the eMac it came with was a 1GHz or earlier (SW version
1.2.2s/n 691-4177-A)
so when I restarted with the CD it said that it could not run and
offered me a restart.
So no further on.
I recently bought one of these with the failing caps problem.
described thusly
... as spares and repairs because I dont have the time to reinstall Mac
OSX
boots up to statup then sits on mac loading screen may just need
reinstalling .
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On 4 March 2010 01:19, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
At 11:51 PM + 3/3/2010, Dan Stobbs wrote:
eMac
memory?
512MB
Does it bong?
Yes.
Does it pass AHT?
Didn't occur to me to try that - good one -I've got several AHT disks in a
box somewhere - almost certainly got a couple of
