Thanks for all the reply's so far!
Justin: I think you may have misunderstood my original post. The Power
Supply is fine. It was bad when i got the machine, but I had another
20" iMac that had a bad mother board and a good power supply.
The Power Supply is GOOD.
The swelling capacitors are on the
On 3/7/10, John Carmonne wrote:
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> On Mar 7, 2010, at 1:38 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote:
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>> Hi all! I got another 20" iMac G5. This one is the powermac 8,1 model
>> running at 1.8GHZ. After replacing the power supply it works great.
>>
>> However, when I was replacing the PSU, I noticed that five of
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 02:59:49PM -0800, Justin The Cynical wrote:
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> I would avoid using it until the supply is fixed or replaced.
>
> Go here:
> http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=154
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> And in particular, look at page four. IMO, bad caps are not something
>
Ben Dinger wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 01:38:26PM -0800, Jonas Ulrich wrote:
*snip*
>> 3. Could it harm the machine to use it before replacing the capacitors?
>
> Maybe. I had a machine (PC) that had bad caps from about the second
> week of ownership due to a cheap motherboard, and it last
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 01:38:26PM -0800, Jonas Ulrich wrote:
> Hi all! I got another 20" iMac G5. This one is the powermac 8,1 model
> running at 1.8GHZ. After replacing the power supply it works great.
>
> However, when I was replacing the PSU, I noticed that five of it's
> capacitors are swelli
On Mar 7, 2010, at 1:38 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote:
> Hi all! I got another 20" iMac G5. This one is the powermac 8,1 model
> running at 1.8GHZ. After replacing the power supply it works great.
>
> However, when I was replacing the PSU, I noticed that five of it's
> capacitors are swelling and a few
BadCaps.net seems to be good, they carry a kit for the iMac G5.
Unfortunately they dont carry one for the eMac >.>
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:38:26 -0600, Jonas Ulrich
wrote:
Hi all! I got another 20" iMac G5. This one is the powermac 8,1 model
running at 1.8GHZ. After replacing the power sup
Hi all! I got another 20" iMac G5. This one is the powermac 8,1 model
running at 1.8GHZ. After replacing the power supply it works great.
However, when I was replacing the PSU, I noticed that five of it's
capacitors are swelling and a few are leaking. Here are my questions:
1. Were can I buy a GO
