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Posted by: blixanz on 2008-10-19 10:50:35
Won an auction on two iMacs for $10. Just a little drive out of town to pick em up!
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=182007598
From the picture it looks like they are slot loaders, and a little bit of work to get them working. Nice to have a 9.2.2 capable machine! [😉] ]'>
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Posted by: tmtomh on 2008-10-24 07:56:47
Nice!
Let us know if you're able to get them up and running.
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Posted by: blixanz on 2008-10-26 02:12:44
Update: I picked them up a couple of days ago [🙂] ]'>
They are original '98 tray load iMacs - 4GB Drive, 32MB ram, 233MHz G3 proc. Probably no changes made ... however
The condition is what is said of them on the auction page - not working although they will chime, the hard drive spins up and as soon as it starts to fire up the crt going the computer shuts down! 🙁
I've opened one of them up and tried putting in a new battery and press the cuda button - but no luck.
I'm thinking the logic board could be worn out, and found an auction for a tray-load iMac motherboard with 128MB of ram on it [😀] ]'> . linky here: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=183610903
Any ideas on whats going on?
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Posted by: MrMacPlus on 2008-10-26 09:33:09
It might be a dead power supply. But either way for $10 you really couldn't go wrong. 🙂 I am going to sell my G3 slotloader for $22USD used, and I do have a buyer.
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Posted by: Rodus on 2008-10-26 10:41:54
Sounds like the flyback transformer's blown. This is fairly common with the tray loaders, and to a lesser degree with the slot loaders.
http://www.macopz.com/columns/imacrepair/
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Posted by: blixanz on 2008-10-26 19:39:24
Since there has been a suggestion of a 'tired' flyback transformer, I gave one of them a go on an external monitor ... IT WORKS!
Boots up into Mac OS 8.6 and actually has 64MB of ram - probably wont do the transformer thing for a while (interesting to find the part). Mac OS 9.2.2 should run fine on that config.
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Posted by: Rodus on 2008-10-27 02:27:12
^^It happened to my Bondi Blue so I recognized the symptoms. You could pull the motherboard, stick it into a new or custom case and run off an external monitor, thats what I'm doing with my He-Man Castle Greyskull case mod.
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Posted by: MrMacPlus on 2008-10-27 16:40:24
It happened to my Bondi Blue so I recognized the symptoms. You could pull the motherboard, stick it into a new or custom case and run off an external monitor, thats what I'm doing with my He-Man Castle Greyskull case mod. I second that.
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