On Feb 1, 2011, at 6:18 PM, Jack Countryman wrote: > On 2/1/11 5:30 PM, jason wrote: >> Hey folks. I acquired a (new to me) above computer. I am a little >> unfamiliar with the normal operation of these machines. The previous >> owner on the auction site stated that it powered up, but had no >> monitor to test it. No hard drive and ram came with it. So it >> arrived today, and I installed two 512 sticks of ram, and plugged in a >> monitor to it. I get the startup chime, and the fans turn on, the >> power lights turn on on the monitor. I do not yet have a hard drive >> for it at the moment. The superdrive is still there, but my son had >> to manually open it with a paperclip. We put a 10.4 dvd in it, but >> couldn't decide if we could hear it spin up or not. Back to the >> monitor, it's a cinema display 17", the two power indicators are lit >> on the bottom, but I don't get any kind of a splash screen, basically >> the monitor stays dark. >> Just took it out of the box earlier, still poking around at it. >> >> Thanks. >> Jason >> > Is the video card correctly seated, hooked to aux power if needed? Try > another monitor? > > While the 1.6 were single processor and air cooled, the dual 1.8 models I've > seen have all been liquid cooled? Both had leakage problems and bad power > supplies, probably shorted when the liquid drained down into the power > supply. Haven't seen any single 1.8 models. >
CORRECTION: according to mactracker, it was the June 2004 dual 2.5ghz as well as the late 2005 2xdual 2.5ghz "quad" that had water cooled CPU's my mistake... Jeffrey Engle -- 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
