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Post #1 by newbmac2k12
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateMon, 20 Apr 2015 - 05:25
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/g4-mdd-power-supply-bad.1795/
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I am trying to work on a g4 mdd dual 1.25ghz tower, for someone.  When plugged in no power.  I did take apart the power supply and from what i can tell a ceramic disc capacitor blew.  If I also understand correctly its soldered on top of a diode, the small blk cylinder soldered horizontally.  Anyway I did search and there is a  thread here about a g4 mdd power supply.  The person mentioned that a short happened and it took out the fuse and may even have affected the mainboard.  My question is where in the power supply is the fuse?  I took a few pics of the burnt capacitor and of the underside and nothing else looks burnt other than that capacitor.  What else would i need to check, and do other than replacing the fuse and this capacitor?  I've never worked on power supplies before other than replacing a few swollen caps.  I also did look it up and it is a pain to use an atx power supply and the used power supplies for it are expensive or at least the ones i saw on fleapay.  Finally, this power supply is the acbel brand one, not the samsung one in that thread. I did try to upload the 3 pics i have of the power supply but it wont let me, it shows im not permitted to upload this kind of file?  They are jpgs.

Thanks in advance.

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