I agree a free mac in any condition is AWESOME!!!!! (all of mine were free )

It might be overheating. The original thermal paste between the CPU and heatsink has almost certainly dried out, if it hasn't been renewed. Also check that the heatsink clip is t…

LEM says not

On a side note. Did they ever make a compatible PPC upgrade for the IIfx? Or is expansion seriously limited due to the unique architecture of the motherboard?

Howdy all I've got a ye olde G3 beige desktop, with a zip drive, 256MB RAM, 8GB disk, etc. OS X 10.2.8. It will work correctly for about 30 mins - an hour, but will then turn off…

Hehehehehe welcome to the club of free iMac G5's! When I got mine it had no leaky caps just some ram problems and it was like a gift! It replaced my iMac G3 350!

grats! Id love to find one myself one day Click to expand... It is surprising what you can find by posting an ad for 'unwanted macs, will pickup' Over the past year I have fou…

grats! Id love to find one myself one day

Free Macs are always worth every penny no matter what condition!

Scored a working iMac G5 from my employer, but need to recap the power supply and motherboard before I dare to use it much. Got several others which aren't powering up at all, but …

Well on ebay I sold my G5 for 750.00+35.00 shipping.

That last paragraph is key, and very good news for me, who has a IIfx to get up and running soon.

Make sure you installed the batteries correctly and they're the type that are supposed to be soldered. If I were you, I would install 3.6 V battery holders so you don't have to bo…

I recapped both of my IIx systems and the IIx spare motherboard, they are reliable now. Not realy that many capacitors (or values) needed.

As I have no idea how to test the onboard capacitors I will have to replace them all. oof Click to expand... Well that's a good thing anyway, as they are over 20 years old!

Surface mount caps can leak from underneath and sometimes you wont see the goo until you remove them. Click to expand... 9 out of 10 times i hear that i think people are mistak…

PSU is a refurb I purchases as initially I thought it was faulty. As I have no idea how to test the onboard capacitors I will have to replace them all. oof

Surface mount caps can leak from underneath and sometimes you wont see the goo until you remove them. Capacitors inside the PSU itself are probably due for replacement anyway.

No luck even after the MC68030 which was 'borrowed' from a working Mac.

So, I've recently discovered that Carnegie Mellon's computer club owns a Lisa 2/10 (unfortunately with Mac XL mods). I'm trying to get this machine operable again, but we want to …

From my notes: The IIfx introduced a new implementation of Mac SCSI that was faster than previous versions. Unfortunately, IIfx SCSI introduced a set of quirks that are unique to …

The 550 board is, if I recall, identical to the Color Classic II and is easily swappable. Keep in mind the 520 and 550 use the 68030; the machines mentioned in the original post al…

I think that terminator was to fix noise problems, terminate the SCSI chain like you normally would for any other mac.

Having never owned one (until now) I am not sure exactly how the SCSI on the IIFX is different other than the black SCSI terminator. The unit I got (free) has the IIFX, 3 video ca…

It originally had a 68030/16 so any 68030 should work when installed.