---------- Original message ---------- Subject: Power Mac G5: how to repair a broken PSU? Date: Freitag 21 Mai 2010N From: "Mac User #330250" <[email protected]> To: [email protected]
> Power Mac G5: how to repair a broken PSU? Give it to a friend who knows a lot about electronics and hope he can fix it! I just wanted to report back: he fixed it! A fuse was blown, possible due to a peek of overvoltage. Anyway, he used his very expensive multimeter and found out what was wrong, ordered the parts, replaced them, and I then put it back into my Power Mac alloy case. I had the system board connected, just in case the PSU would blow up again if there were no load on it. I heard the “click” again, which hadn't worked before, so I was hoping for the best, but still fearing the worst. So I continued to put all back to it's place, all the fans, air flow deviders and the processor with its huge heat sink. I cannot tell you how reliefed and happy I was as I heard the chime after turning it on again. As there was no hard drive installed yet I went straight into Open Firmware and saw the picture of black text on a bright white background on the screen – so everything seemed okay, from system board with memory and processor down to the video card! It's now running Mac OS X 10.5.8 again as well as my favorite Linux of them all: Gentoo, in its all 64-bit flavor! I love it: 16 GB of RAM!!!! Anyway, all expenses were the parts plus shipping for about <15.00 €uro. Much better than an also used PSU for around $200.00 or so, excluding shipping costs! Thanks to you all for your help! A happy Mac User #330250 aka Andreas… -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
