Not easily - I have the equipment but the connections are pretty well covered. I might have a closer look at it later today. I also want to check out any caps that I can find on the main board.
On Jan 31, 2014, at 8:19 am, John <johnsess...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Do you have any way to actually check for voltages coming out of the power > supply? > > On 1/29/2014 11:19 PM, David Mann wrote: >> Thanks Zos, you're pretty much saying what I thought. >> >> I took the power supply out earlier today and had a look to see if >> any caps (or anything at all) had suffered obvious failures but it >> looked pretty good. Minimal dust, too but I vacuumed it out, gave >> things a wiggle and put it all back together with no change in >> behaviour. >> >> I'm only annoyed because of the scanner. I'll have to check whether >> I've scanned all of my 35mm slides. I scanned the last of my medium >> format stuff last year. >> >> Cheers, Dave >> >> On Jan 30, 2014, at 2:12 pm, Zos Xavius <zosxav...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> It should start up with a bad battery. Your power supply is most >>> like dead or the caps on the board have failed. >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:08 PM, David Mann <dmann...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I started up my old G5 to do some slide scanning today but it >>>> seems to be on the blink. At first I had some strange problems >>>> communicating with the scanner but it came right and I got a >>>> couple of scans done. >>>> >>>> I left the machine to idle while I had lunch but when I came back >>>> it had frozen up and I had to hold the power button down to get >>>> it to shut down. >>>> >>>> Now it won't start up :( The fans and hard drives spin up but >>>> that's it. No chime, no signal to the display. The power LED >>>> only lights when I press the power button. I think it was >>>> lighting up at first, but it stopped after I did the PMU reset >>>> (see below). >>>> >>>> I've tried re-seating the video card and the memory, tried >>>> starting it with the hard drives unplugged, and also with a >>>> different monitor connected to the other port on the video card. >>>> I'm not able to get it to respond. >>>> >>>> I've tried resetting the PMU / SMU using these instructions, with >>>> no luck. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1939 >>>> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1436 >>>> >>>> I also followed the procedure to reset the PRAM but I didn't hold >>>> much hope. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379 >>>> >>>> I'm now at the conclusion that the power supply is probably >>>> faulty. Do any of our resident Mac experts have any further >>>> suggestions? It's a first-gen single-processor 1.6GHz G5. I >>>> just checked and it's just a couple of weeks over 10 years old! >>>> >>>> I've wondered if it would be worth replacing the battery on the >>>> motherboard but I'm not really sure. >>>> >>>> I've only kept that machine around because it has no resale value >>>> and Minolta didn't release drivers for later OS versions because >>>> they exited the scanner business. I couldn't stand Vuescan when >>>> I last tried it so I don't really want to go down that route. I >>>> guess the good thing about it having no resale value is that I >>>> can replace it cheaply through the secondhand market. >>>> >>>> Unfortunately I was just getting started on a project to scan >>>> some really old glass-plate slides for someone :( Might have to >>>> resort to a macro lens and a light box. >>>> >>>> Cheers, Dave > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
