Re: trying to revive an iMac G5 iSight 17"

2014-04-01 Thread Jim Scott
On Apr 1, 2014, at 2:33 PM, faithie999 wrote: > a friend gave me a non-working iMac G5 iSight 17". the symptom: when the > power switch is depressed, the fans (both the optical drive and CPU) come on, > and the front panel pilot light comes on. after 30 or so seconds, the fans > kick into

Re: trying to revive an iMac G5 iSight 17"

2014-04-01 Thread John Callahan
Could be a bad memory chip. FWIW On Apr 1, 2014, at 5:33 PM, faithie999 wrote: > a friend gave me a non-working iMac G5 iSight 17". the symptom: when the > power switch is depressed, the fans (both the optical drive and CPU) come on, > and the front panel pilot light comes on. after 30 or so

trying to revive an iMac G5 iSight 17"

2014-04-01 Thread faithie999
a friend gave me a non-working iMac G5 iSight 17". the symptom: when the power switch is depressed, the fans (both the optical drive and CPU) come on, and the front panel pilot light comes on. after 30 or so seconds, the fans kick into high speed, then intermittently return to normal speed, t