the power connector is alot like an atx, isn't there a wire you can short to make the psu kick on... so you can check voltages? also there is a replaceable VRM board on those. as macdrone said if i remember correctly this VRM board, has like 5 or 6 densely populated conventional radial capacitors.
Oh, also, you might need to take the mainboard out, macdrone will tell you his q700 had a blanket of dust under his mainboard causing it to not power-up.
i just now realized my q700 was acting a little funny the other day, this is something even i should check.
Don't start getting depressed and throwing around the "LOSS" term. I mean if you talk to the right person they well you your whole collection of crappy old computers was a total loss working or not. Just stay positive and do some real troubleshooting, you will get through this, and will come out that much smarter because of it.
I cannot even begin to count the amount of machines mcdermd got in and were just totally DOA,
A, re-cap, and some patience, will get you through most of the time, and in only a rare case did he acutely need a motherboard swap because of a flakey sound IC that went bad due to previous user neglect, running a machine knowing your caps are bad, can make other things go things including IC's go bad, like the guys out there with SE/30 DEAD boards, /w bad borns filters, No Sound, Dead scsi, ETC. Many people out there with dead LC PSU's, man those things are dyeing left and right. However as james1095 mentioned, its only the caps that go bad, they are like tires, or heck, a timing belt, a wear item. viewtopic.php?f=9&t=19978
This issue is no different then lots of other vintage macs i'v had, and its no different then issues you will have in the near future with any mac in your collection, if you are not equipped to re-cap.
Ask LCGuy, He leaves his working macs for a year at a time, puts them up, comes back a year later and 2 or 3 won't work any more and will now require some troubleshooting.
I think that is why they call this forum a liberation army, were always fighting a war of defective mac's
Oh, also, you might need to take the mainboard out, macdrone will tell you his q700 had a blanket of dust under his mainboard causing it to not power-up.
i just now realized my q700 was acting a little funny the other day, this is something even i should check.
Don't start getting depressed and throwing around the "LOSS" term. I mean if you talk to the right person they well you your whole collection of crappy old computers was a total loss working or not. Just stay positive and do some real troubleshooting, you will get through this, and will come out that much smarter because of it.
I cannot even begin to count the amount of machines mcdermd got in and were just totally DOA,
A, re-cap, and some patience, will get you through most of the time, and in only a rare case did he acutely need a motherboard swap because of a flakey sound IC that went bad due to previous user neglect, running a machine knowing your caps are bad, can make other things go things including IC's go bad, like the guys out there with SE/30 DEAD boards, /w bad borns filters, No Sound, Dead scsi, ETC. Many people out there with dead LC PSU's, man those things are dyeing left and right. However as james1095 mentioned, its only the caps that go bad, they are like tires, or heck, a timing belt, a wear item. viewtopic.php?f=9&t=19978
This issue is no different then lots of other vintage macs i'v had, and its no different then issues you will have in the near future with any mac in your collection, if you are not equipped to re-cap.
Ask LCGuy, He leaves his working macs for a year at a time, puts them up, comes back a year later and 2 or 3 won't work any more and will now require some troubleshooting.
I think that is why they call this forum a liberation army, were always fighting a war of defective mac's