The eMacs.
When I picked them up they were wet, no idea why but perhaps the rapid heating and cooling of the server room caused some condensation. Took them back upstairs to the IT staff room for some maintenance work.
Front door needed the springs reattached, the power button reattached on the second, plus the cases needed a good scrub up with some water and a sponge. Then the moment of truth.
Both dead. Or so I thought, until I reached behind and turned them on at the wall, a step i'd overlooked. :lol:
Both fired up perfectly and after some transplanting of hardware out of my current old G4 desktops into these, they are now running smoothly.
eMac #1
700mhz PowerPC G4 Processor
512mb RAM (384 pre-upgrade)
160gb HD (20gb pre-upgrade)
32mb GeForce2 MX Graphics
Mac OS X 10.4.11
Damage- None.
eMac #2
700mhz PowerPC G4 Processor
512mb RAM (384 pre-upgrade)
40gb HD
32mb GeForce2 MX Graphics
Airport Wireless
Mac OS X 10.4.11
Damage- Needs new drive door, Speaker Grilles.
One is mine, in fact i'm posting from it right now. The other went to my brother who used it to replace his failing iMac G3/600, which i've picked up for repair (Flyback Transformer).
Only change i'll be looking to make is bumping up eMac #1 to a gigabyte of RAM at some point. Should be good to go then.
NOTE: Damn they're noisy! That fan in the back sounds like a wind tunnel. Suppose it's better than having silence with no fan, and a bunch of overheating components.
When I picked them up they were wet, no idea why but perhaps the rapid heating and cooling of the server room caused some condensation. Took them back upstairs to the IT staff room for some maintenance work.
Front door needed the springs reattached, the power button reattached on the second, plus the cases needed a good scrub up with some water and a sponge. Then the moment of truth.
Both dead. Or so I thought, until I reached behind and turned them on at the wall, a step i'd overlooked. :lol:
Both fired up perfectly and after some transplanting of hardware out of my current old G4 desktops into these, they are now running smoothly.
eMac #1
700mhz PowerPC G4 Processor
512mb RAM (384 pre-upgrade)
160gb HD (20gb pre-upgrade)
32mb GeForce2 MX Graphics
Mac OS X 10.4.11
Damage- None.
eMac #2
700mhz PowerPC G4 Processor
512mb RAM (384 pre-upgrade)
40gb HD
32mb GeForce2 MX Graphics
Airport Wireless
Mac OS X 10.4.11
Damage- Needs new drive door, Speaker Grilles.
One is mine, in fact i'm posting from it right now. The other went to my brother who used it to replace his failing iMac G3/600, which i've picked up for repair (Flyback Transformer).
Only change i'll be looking to make is bumping up eMac #1 to a gigabyte of RAM at some point. Should be good to go then.
NOTE: Damn they're noisy! That fan in the back sounds like a wind tunnel. Suppose it's better than having silence with no fan, and a bunch of overheating components.