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iMac G5 can run successfully with blown capacitor?
Posted by: Classic Finder on 2024-04-01 00:08:21
Hello. I have iMac G5 with blown capacitor. I don't have enough materials for recapping. So will my iMac G5 work fine with the blown capacitor?
Posted by: Byrd on 2024-04-01 00:56:52
Welcome - quick answer: no, because iMacs of this era are plagued by bad caps, even if just a few appear leaking you can bet many others are marginal. If you don't have the materials I'd look out for another iMac G5 which is cheap and has nil cap leakage - for now.
Posted by: Classic Finder on 2024-04-01 01:03:05
Welcome - quick answer: no, because iMacs of this era are plagued by bad caps, even if just a few appear leaking you can bet many others are marginal. If you don't have the materials I'd look out for another iMac G5 which is cheap and has nil cap leakage - for now.
Oh, okay. So where can I find the materials then? I can write my iMac details if required.
Posted by: Byrd on 2024-04-01 02:26:36
www.instructables.com

Imac G5 DIY Capacitors Repair

Imac G5 DIY Capacitors Repair: There are probably enough DIY manuals on how to replace those bad capacitors in the G5 imac model... If not then this will maybe help.. Symptoms: If you're Imac G5 is suffering from power problems (not turning on, standby issues, video problems an…
www.instructables.com www.instructables.com

Some starters here, you’ll need to research tools and capacitor ratings next.
Posted by: mitchW on 2024-04-01 15:58:25
iMac G5 may work "fine" with multiple blown (bulging) capacitors, or might fail to POST or exhibit problems with just one defective capacitor.

My iMac G5 (17-inch, 1st version) has 2 bulging capacitors on the mainboard and it works fine. I reccaped the PSU (also very important on those!) about 10 years ago, but the logic board had no blown capacitors at that time.
I used to own an iMac G5 20-inch (last version with DDR2 RAM, etc), and it was crashing all the time. Culprit was one blown capacitor on the board.
Posted by: Classic Finder on 2024-04-01 19:09:34
iMac G5 may work "fine" with multiple blown (bulging) capacitors, or might fail to POST or exhibit problems with just one defective capacitor.

My iMac G5 (17-inch, 1st version) has 2 bulging capacitors on the mainboard and it works fine. I reccaped the PSU (also very important on those!) about 10 years ago, but the logic board had no blown capacitors at that time.
I used to own an iMac G5 20-inch (last version with DDR2 RAM, etc), and it was crashing all the time. Culprit was one blown capacitor on the board.
My iMac G5 have 2 blown capacitor. And display not working. This is interesting.
Posted by: finkmac on 2024-04-01 19:10:41
yes it work 100% trust me bro
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