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Posted by: Macdrone on 2013-01-16 15:56:42
So I go to a goodwill in aloha or all the time and they never seem to have any mac stuff, just pc towers usually. Well I look through a glass door in rcieving and see a whole table of imacs from G4 to intel. About 10 in all. No testing can be done there as it is a last stop kinda deal. They haveto remove hard drives of course and are pretty good about not wreckingthe machines when they do it. SinceI have a G4 and a G5 imac I was like oh well, but that 20 inch intel I am thinking what the heck its 20 bucks. It has 2 gigs of ram and I have a hard drive for it. So I get it bring it home. Slap a hard drive in it and plug it in thinking I will here a chime and have no screen or lines. To my disbelief I get nada. No nothing. So I pull it all apart, remove the screen again and look at the power supply thinking blown fuse, no such luck the power supply under a little copper looking heat shield is cooked, black, charred. Well last year I had a 17 inch G5 that the motherboard and screen went belly up and I got it for parts (which gave my Cube a new DVD drive) and low and behold the rating and connections for the supply matched the intel. Built completely different I put it in and "BOOM" chime and boot. Have to download update 10.6.8 combo but after 12 hours of being off on and asleep its working like a charm. Ill put 10.7 on it since it cant take 8. The funniest thing was I had windows XP loaded on the Hard drive and forgot, and seeing the imac booted into windows made me laugh.-
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Posted by: Juror22 on 2013-01-18 11:25:35
That is a great find, especially for the price. I think that you were increadibly lucky that the power supply matched up (nothing seems to be the same from one model to the next anymore). I hope that it works for a good long while.
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Posted by: Macdrone on 2013-01-19 08:25:24
You are right about parts not matching up. luckily the intel white imac and the G5 white imac seemed super similar. Just got lucky, if you take lucky as the G5 was dead and so was the intel (for different reasons of course).
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Posted by: mcdermd on 2013-01-19 11:23:49
The iSight G5 power supply fits, right? The earlier G5 PSUs were totally different.
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Posted by: Macdrone on 2013-01-19 11:59:09
Yes the isight fits as it is just a board inside the unit, compared to the ALS G5 which is an enclosed PSU unit. The ALS G5 has desktop ram but the isight G5 and first intel use same Laptop ram as the macbooks from then.
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Posted by: mcdermd on 2013-01-19 21:22:19
G5 iSights use desktop DDR2. You can see it in this pic of my 20" G5 iSight. The size of RAM cover is an easy way to tell if it is a G5 or an Intel model.
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Posted by: Macdrone on 2013-01-20 03:00:44
Weird, yep you are correct. Sorry about that. The power supply I put in the intel was marked with same specs as the G5, but I got the power supply from a G5 17 inch so again just lucky. 2 days on no issues.
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