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1.25ghz eMac, What are my options?
So an eMac at my school has been acting up. I checked the CD Drive cover and it indicated to me that it is a 1.25ghz machine.
What the machine does is, Sometimes not wake up from sleep. Completely freeze When you are using it and other strange occurences.
Now after some digging around in my brain I remember that these were made at around the same time as my iMac G5, which most of the problems come from leaky caps.
So a while ago I read online when I got my 700mhz eMac I read about the cap failures on these 1.25ghz models. I popped the little memory cover, and lo and behold there was a leaking capacitor :simasimac:
What my question is, what are my options?
What the machine does is, Sometimes not wake up from sleep. Completely freeze When you are using it and other strange occurences.
Now after some digging around in my brain I remember that these were made at around the same time as my iMac G5, which most of the problems come from leaky caps.
So a while ago I read online when I got my 700mhz eMac I read about the cap failures on these 1.25ghz models. I popped the little memory cover, and lo and behold there was a leaking capacitor :simasimac:
What my question is, what are my options?
First of all, stop using the system immediately, Unplug it and remove the board if you have to.
If you follow that advice, then you may have a pretty cheap repair job on your hands. All you need to do is replace the caps.
If you keep using it until it really dies, then you may need to replace the entire board. You could take it to Apple and see if they'll do it, some stores are still doing it even today, but the program officially ended a few years ago.
There are some shops and individuals that are willing to do it for a fee if you ship them the bad board, so you may look into that.
If you follow that advice, then you may have a pretty cheap repair job on your hands. All you need to do is replace the caps.
If you keep using it until it really dies, then you may need to replace the entire board. You could take it to Apple and see if they'll do it, some stores are still doing it even today, but the program officially ended a few years ago.
There are some shops and individuals that are willing to do it for a fee if you ship them the bad board, so you may look into that.
Don't solder anything yet. Try asking Apple first. Call 1-800-SOS-APPL or whatever their phone number is. Talk to the first guy, who will probably deny the repair, then ask to speak to the supervisor. The supervisor will usually approve the repair, and she will give you some numbers to write down. Take the eMac and those numbers to the Genius bar and they will perform the repair. The motherboard will be shipped in from whatever store has a spare motherboard lying around.
I accidentally upgraded one of my eMacs this way. It's the one I use in the warehouse as my main Mac. It was really a 1.25 GHz with bad caps (I did not know this at the time, all I knew is that it had bad caps) - but someone before me had taken and switched the CD doors with a top of the line 1.42 GHz model. So it was accepted for a board replacement and they used a 1.42 GHz board.
When I booted it up it only had an 80 GB hard drive (but it did have a Superdrive) - and I learned later that 1.42 GHz eMacs didn't suffer from the bad caps, so I deduced that it must have really been a 1.25 GHz SD model. Oh well!
I accidentally upgraded one of my eMacs this way. It's the one I use in the warehouse as my main Mac. It was really a 1.25 GHz with bad caps (I did not know this at the time, all I knew is that it had bad caps) - but someone before me had taken and switched the CD doors with a top of the line 1.42 GHz model. So it was accepted for a board replacement and they used a 1.42 GHz board.
When I booted it up it only had an 80 GB hard drive (but it did have a Superdrive) - and I learned later that 1.42 GHz eMacs didn't suffer from the bad caps, so I deduced that it must have really been a 1.25 GHz SD model. Oh well!
They are almost as loud a MDD, which got the nickname "wind-tunnel." I am typing from it right now, and there is a CONSTANT hum in the background, which I can hear from across the house. It is the only downside of this computer (which i got for ten bucks) . Now I just have to get a new psu for my imac G5... But yeah, they are very noisy.