totally superfailed capacitors?

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Could be. I think it might be a good idea to recap the boards on both machines anyway, given their age. I'll probably hold off on those until after I recap my new XO.

yeah that happen to me all the time with vintage hard drives, you get the machine they power up and work fine,for a while, consider them good, then later in the week try em.. nope, dead HD.

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Yeah, I think it may have given up the ghost for good. That's okay, though; I wanted to upgrade the hard drive anyway. I've been reading up on the CF solutions people have used, and I think I'll end up going that route. The less heat (and noise) being generated inside that case, the better.