Thanks Christopher for the quick clue of likelihoods.
We can appreciate the problem of allocating time to fix a dear old machine, which applies to our pair of rescued iMacs and an even more ancient PowerPC 6100/66 but in our case we don't have the expertise to diagnose those problems and by the time they were in trouble this time, they were seriously unable to cope with the web so they were serving quite adequately as officework support until the size of files from the bigger/upgrade programs made the harddrive not really able to cope so the old software was just left as they were. Don't you love it when the improvements undo what was working quite well....
Anyway, I was just thinking about what it would take now to replace the power supply... is it that much of an ordeal that I will be seriously delayed in accessing my own files or even worse, is it a hazardous-to-computer-wellbeing project... I'll go search for more details but one site seemed to say it was doable but longer than they wanted to be without their computer, though it said a skilled tech could do it in 20 minutes so it shouldn't cost a lot but then a lot to some is not equivalent to a lot for others...
and so I suppose I would not be somehow better served to have another mac that would serve some-other-servicing idea (portable or somesuch, like your G5) but would be a good backup for our OSX 10.4.11 (I think that's where we drew that line) with Dual processor... based on mostly internet, OpenOffice, Grab, TextEdit, Adobe Acrobat Professional and a few more A/V programs from OS9 days...
Thanks again. TTYL
MJ Raichyk
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Christopher Satterfield
It sounds a lot like a blown power supply, I have 2 G4 towers sitting here that need new power supplies, but I'm just too lazy to fix 'em as I have a Dual 1.8 GHz G5.
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