On 19 Dec 2003, at 05:17, Matthew Muelver wrote:
Interestingly, the screen is flickering every few seconds, looks to me like maybe a power supply issue, but for all I know it could be something else entirely. The video is handled entirely by the CPU on these machines, right? No video chip? Maybe its just a bad outlet, I'll try moving it later to see if that helps.
More likely either a dying capacitor or bad solder joint on the analogue board of the Mac. You're going to _have_ to take it apart. Here's where to get the tool:
http://www.macfaq.org/hardware/misc.shtml#Q2.8.3
I got mine at NAPA Auto Parts (!!!). If you can find the book "Dead Mac Scrolls", it will give you a very detailed description of what's wrong on the Analaog Board and how to fix it.
Stephen
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