Hey all, if anyone has been in the same situation that i'll describe below, i'd be interested in hereing your thoughts on what I should do.
I've just been given to emacs that seem to have been taken out of some form of office. They were given to me on the understanding that they might not work and at the end of the day, I would be getting them for free so I couldn't really complain. Turning both of them on yeelds nothing which I sort of expected. Removing the casing tells me that someones been quite intheusiastic with there fingers - memory and harddrives have been removed but no worry, I have plenty of components that can fill the gaps. One other thing that became obvious when looking inside was that when the components had been removed, the remover hadn't bothered to reconnect anything back up - there are several cables that look like they should be connected to things but aren't. Whilst googling for service manuals, I found out that the power button had to be connected to the motherboard which thinking about it makes a lot of sence. When I removed the casing, I didn't have to disconnect anything from the power button, nor can I find anything that would seem to fit near the power button as far as cables go. I'd be interested in knowing from anyone thats serviced an emac - ie: has taken the casing off: Can you describe to me the connector that I need to connect to the power button? I really don't see anything that could fit, is it possible for this cable to be removed? Where on earth is the harddrive meant to go? I've had a pretty good look inside and I can't even find a place for a caddy, let alone finding a caddy with a drive in it. What do you think all the connectors are for and where are they meant to go? As a *very* vague guide, one looks like the 4 pin 12v connector that you get on most psu's, one looks like a floppy connector that you get on psu's and another looks like a pci express power connector but obviously there not going to be any of those, they were meerly examples. One of them is the 800mhz model and i'm not sure about the other one. I'd quite like to get at least one of these up and running because there not at all bad macs really and I don't mind donating some components to them. I'm hoping that what happened was that the machines were upgraded to newer macs and the tech guy removed the harddrive and memory before putting them in storage as apposed to something more sinister like them being put into storage due to a dead board or psu. If anyone has any pointers I would be very greatfull. Cheers. BEN. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
