It's worth a trip to Apple to get a quote there before one orders the parts for a DIY.
About a year ago my wife's 2007 iMac blew out its supply. I priced a replacement from OWC or similar and I was all set to order it and open that iMac up (very tricky little buggers), but on a whim we dragged it down to Apple first. They quoted a price for repair, including parts and labour, that was about 20% less than the mail order supply alone. So we let Apple do it. Three days later we had our iMac back good as new. On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 3:00 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm a PC guy, so I don't know much about Macs, especially the PowerMac, > but I did a quick search & I think a replacement power supply should be > available fairly cheaply if that's what is wrong with it. > > I also found a page devoted to how to get the power supply out: > > http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Power+Mac+G5+Power+Supply+Replacement/1893 > > > On 1/30/2014 2:43 PM, David Mann wrote: >> >> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >>>> 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 >>>>> <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
