On Mar 21, 2009, at 9:59 AM, Dan wrote:
> > At 9:17 AM -0400 3/21/2009, Brian Troisi wrote: >> On Mar 21, 2009, at 8:42 AM, John Hanson wrote: >> >>> I am a little hesitant to say it's the capacitors. When I had the >>> capacitors fail on my eMac 1.25ghz, the computer would simply freeze >>> up. No kernel panics or anything like that, it just locked up for no >>> reason. I hope you get your eMac working soon, they were very good >>> machines that were quite capable. >> >> My friend found a 1.25 Ghz eMac in great condition! After a couple of >> weeks, the freezings would get worse. He thought it was because I >> installed Leopard on it, but when he looked inside the machine, he >> saw >> the bulging and leaking capacitors. > > Sounds like Simon should open the eMac and take a look - a quick > check for this issue? I read in some forum that you can see the capacitors via the RAM slot. I'm not sure though. My friend found out because he gutted the machine and was going to sell the working parts. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
