Well part of the problem is the enclosed PSU. Before the SE, the PSU was exposed on the analog board. But with the SE, Apple used a Sony PSU unit which has its own case and PCB, se…

It's also how you can use both sides of a single-sided disk. Double-sided disks for all other computers have two index holes. This is why when you get a disk which has IBM and Appl…

My G5 iMac has this same problem. It rarely shuts down by it self (But it has) but more often than not it wakes itself up from sleep. My CPU is running @ 146 F

The chap I got a Radius Two Page Display (Radius Mono 20GS) from a year or so ago has just given me a couple of associated rarities after a bout of move-inspired housecleaning: the…

My wife's iMac G5 started running warmer than normal (75C to 80C) and the fan started getting noisy. So I opened it up for the 3rd cleaning and noticed all the bulging capacitors! …

Does anyone have a clue to why the "Hours of Use" (the one you get in TechTool) gets reset a few times a week? It should display something like 43000 hours since 2004/3/19, but ab…

thanks for the info guys - silenx it is then. saying all of that - i wonder how a duel floppy SE would fair without a fan - they had them too after all. anyway -thanks again

$99 :O 8-o > :-/

hello wacky - its been a while. anyway from that you mean just pull it out and stick another one in? seems simple enough - any provisions or traps i need be aware off? Click to…

I'd be looking at installing a quieter fan. The Elina Fan was used in a lot of Macs from that era (I have both an LCII and an LCIII with them, they're pretty easy to find), and is …

Very nice haul, I remember back at my old job (cicra 2005) I was in charge of maintaining 5 dual 1.25 Ghz MDDs (as well as about 20 eMacs and one G5)...running Panther and pre-CS A…

Running without a fan is possible, but as you will then have the rough equivalent of a Plus, it's not a great idea. Click to expand... Meaning, the SE has significantly more ro…

Hi, With the advent of Snow Leopard, G4 towers sure are getting cheap these days ... picked up this beauty for AUD $99! It came in pristine condition (bar many stickers on the si…

Running without a fan is possible, but as you will then have the rough equivalent of a Plus, it's not a great idea. I believe JDW did some research on suitable fan replacements. T…

OK I posted a video of it to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JVcuPjgE2c

hello wacky - its been a while. anyway from that you mean just pull it out and stick another one in? seems simple enough - any provisions or traps i need be aware off?

Just replace the fan with a quieter one, then. Running an SE without a fan is not advised.

my fan is noisy! i am sure that it is no noisier than anyone else's fan, but recently its been bugging me. has anyone ever ran their SE without the fan? i assume it would be mor…

buy a 2.5mm minijack socket Click to expand... The hard part is going to be finding one that matches - it's non-standard. IIRC, longer than normal and with four contacts rathe…

I liked my iBook G3 while it worked. The dreaded GPU issue is now showing it's ugly head. I thought about repairing the mobo, but the hinge is also bent. Being a G3 I will more th…

Even Tantalum capacitors have a service life just like Aluminum electrolytic. While the aluminum ones might leak with age they generally fail open (no big deal) while tantalums fai…

One last question - wouldn't Tantalum capacitors normalize the audio to an extent because of their high ESR ratings? Click to expand... If you had actually used the 'Search' fe…

Yeah, I was thinking that it would be better to buy a 2.5mm minijack socket rather than desolder it from the iLamp board, but it's all a bit of a moot point anyway because I sold o…

Question then comes down to. What I am thinking of that requires hard sectored disks. Click to expand... I can't imagine what you're thinking of. ;-) Hard sectoring refers t…

One last question - wouldn't Tantalum capacitors normalize the audio to an extent because of their high ESR ratings?