>When your capacitors were bulged, did you repair or replace the machines? I called the tech. He stated that he had also seen G5 with problem capacitors, but a replacement logic board was needed to fix that, which was a $700 repair so it wasn't worth repairing the machine.
Which leads to the next question: are schools or businesses with a large # of G5's getting a sense of an average lifespan for the dual 2.5 G5's? I've considered buying another G5 and then moving my drives and cards over to the used replacement one, but if the average lifespan is 5-6 years, then that would be a waste of $600 - $700 before too long. Thanks.
> Although I haven't seen any discussion of the G5 towers having the same
> capacitor issues as the G5 iMacs it might be worth inspecting the
> motherboard. On ours they were just a little bulged. But we were having
> all kinds of boot issues.
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