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
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
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