This iMac is notorious for bad capacitors. It always seems to happen, even if it was well maintained. The reason is heat and capacitor plague. This is a very common failure. This is kind of Apple's fault, but the capacitors weren't. The heat the G5 puts out that helps kill them is.
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Even if you can replace the caps, no. This thing will keep doing it time and time again due to the G5 heat. The displays also fail a lot in them. These use TDMS panels. In other words you need the known to fail Apple part. Once the screen goes into vertical lines, it's done.
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Even if you can replace the caps, no. This thing will keep doing it time and time again due to the G5 heat output PPC G5 processors are notorious for. The displays also fail in them too and these use Apple specific TDMS panels and you have to use the Apple part. You cannot substitute it at all in this model.
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These are not worth fixing. Sell it as-is to some collector who fixes everything Apple and move on. Get a new iMac that isn't a piece of garbage that won't fail the same way. Just don't get the 21.5" 1.4GHz model.
This iMac is notorious for bad capacitors. It always seems to happen, even if it was well maintained. The reason is heat and capacitor plague. This is a very common failure. This is kind of Apple's fault, but the capacitors weren't. The heat the G5 puts out that helps kill them is.
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These meacines were always having this happen
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Dont blame apple! There was a bad stream of capacitors at the time this was released
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now that you think about it, the meachine may cost more to fix then its avctully worth so '''IF YOU WANT TO''' sell it for parts on ebay or something, then get a new imac, go for it
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Even if you can replace the caps, no. This thing will keep doing it time and time again due to the G5 heat. The displays also fail a lot in them. These use TDMS panels. In other words you need the known to fail Apple part. Once the screen goes into vertical lines, it's done.
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These are not worth fixing. Sell it as-is to some collector who fixes everything Apple and move on. Get a new iMac that isn't a piece of garbage that won't fail the same way. Just don't get the 21.5" 1.4GHz model.
Dont blame apple! There was a bad stream of capacitors at the time this was released
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now that you think about it, the meachine may cost more to fix then its avctully worth so '''IF YOU WANT TO''' sell it for parts on ebay or something, then get a new mac, go for it
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now that you think about it, the meachine may cost more to fix then its avctully worth so '''IF YOU WANT TO''' sell it for parts on ebay or something, then get a new imac, go for it
Dont blame apple! There was a bad stream of capacitors at the time this was released
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now that you think about it, the meachine may cost more to fix then its avctully worth so '''IF YOU WANT TO''' sell it for parts on ebay or something, then get a new mac, go for it
its MOST LIKLEY to lie within the capacitors.
These meacines were always having this happen
Dont blame apple! There was a bad stream of capacitors at the time this was released