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update on the G4 troubleshooting thread - wurm - 06-27-2009
First mentioned here: http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,751648,751648#msg-751648
New battery arrived today. Installed. Nothing. The thing is, I still don't think (s)he switched the power supply, for a few reasons.
1. She called back within a time frame that would have had her pretty much just arriving back home from when she left me. (Yeah, maybe she knew she was going to switch it and played the game accordingly.)
2. Several emails (from her iPhone) expressed the initial interest, and in a follow-up phone call she explained that she needed something fairly quickly, as her PC died. (Yup, this could well just be a story.)
3. She drove back with everything the next day and stood and watched while I tried to troubleshoot in front of her. (Yes, if she knew the power supply was dead she knew I wasn't going to just fix it on the spot.) But her time has to be worth something.
4. When I emailed her to explain that it might be the battery and that I was ordering a new one, she asked me to please let her know if that fixes it because she's still interested. (Yeah, again, that could be all to make it look good.)
5. Finally, I've really inspected this thing and if she switched the power supply, then she also was meticulous about putting back dust on the p.s. housing, the optical drive/Zip drive housing, etc. because there was a neat layer of dust on those things. There was also no evidence of screws having been messed with – at least none that I could see. And she would have had to remove the optical and Zip drives to get at the screws for the power supply housing.
Maybe I'm just being naive. Hey, if I've been scammed I'll get over it. My experiences with Craigslist up to now have all been favorable, so I'll consider it a lesson learned. The bottom line is that it's now a shell that I guess I can try to sell for other parts. Should I list it again as a dead machine with everything included as before or should I list RAM, drives, case, etc. separately? Would doing that be worth the effort?
Re: update on the G4 troubleshooting thread - Jimmypoo - 06-27-2009
You check for any inline fuses for the PS?
I don't even know where they are on that machine, but the Motorola's we had did have them on the
Mac 4400 power supply.
It took me two minutes to remember the word "StarMax."
Re: update on the G4 troubleshooting thread - Jimmypoo - 06-27-2009
btw.... although I hate visitors of this kind, this is a good example of...
"See it working here? Play with it now. When you take it out of here, if you do something to it in transit
it is your problem."
Re: update on the G4 troubleshooting thread - wurm - 06-27-2009
Oh yeah, in hindsight, I should definitely have brought her back to the house to start it up, etc. Then I could have justifiably said it's not DOA. We live and learn.
Re: update on the G4 troubleshooting thread - space-time - 06-27-2009
if the power cord OK???
Re: update on the G4 troubleshooting thread - AAA - 06-27-2009
Good luck.
I sometimes videotape the item working, and immediately packaged for shipping.
I am sorry that you had this issue.
Again, I love my G4.
Re: update on the G4 troubleshooting thread - Jimmypoo - 06-27-2009
I say invest another $10 in it and get a new CPU, even if it is a single. They have to be out there for
cheap in the 350 to 450MHz config. That will tell you if you got snagged on the processor.
Wear gloves - because you might want to have someone check that CPU for fingerprints if it turns
out a new one works. There shouldn't BE any tranny fingerprints on that CPU.
Re: update on the G4 troubleshooting thread - sam ward - 06-27-2009
Reinsert the power cord hard?
Re: update on the G4 troubleshooting thread - wurm - 06-27-2009
Power cord is fine. I just checked it with another piece of gear. It's been firmly inserted into the tower, several times. Frankly, it's not worth my time to hunt down another CPU, even if I could find one for $10.
Parts worth anything?
Re: update on the G4 troubleshooting thread - space-time - 06-27-2009
wurm wrote:
Parts worth anything?
since you don't know which parts work and which don't work, I don't see how one could answer this question