iMac G5 repair notes
Well, I picked up an iMac G5 from the electronics discard area by 151 Le Conte. I am hoping that it’s a perfectly good machine (I see no visible damage and unit powers on) thrown away by someone who upgraded his computer.
I opened it up following the directions here (apparently they’ve made these iMacs really easy to open). But unfortunately, it’s apparently missing it’s SATA drive, and more importantly, RAM, which means I can’t quite test to see if it does actually work.
I don’t think I have any spare DDR rams, especially ones meeting the criteria for use with iMac G5. So, I am going to have to ask around tomorrow for one, and if not, I may have to take a chance (that this machine is working) and order one online.
It would be very nice if this works (it’s a nice, self-contained unit no larger than an LCD) … but we shall see.
Edit: It seems to start up O.K. with a DDR ram we had hanging around in the lab. I wouldn’t trust it … until an OS could be installed on a hard drive and successfully booted from that drive, but so far so good.