Good luck with it! You will get them working again!

I did see him do it with a vice, but I didn't know he showed other ways to do it. Thanks!

You checked out https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/23399-leaky-elna-capacitors-inside-powerbook-power-brick/ ? shoving in a wedge along the edge is one way to do it. Ferr…

Got these in the mail today, $20ish for the lot. Supposedly dead, so going to reference and replace capacitors to see where that takes me. I better keep them in a box at night, si…

Guess I should specify G5 PSU's lol.

Guess I have bad luck with supplies atx supplies I work on always seem to have at least one mosfet burned up.

Pretty sure most PSU issues are bad caps, I think some have tried to recap them.

I am no expert, but from what I understand, heat is the issue with the logic boards, or was with mine. The chipset is a BGA chip with solder balls/pads on the bottom of it instead …

Thanks y'all! I was afraid when I saw the box, I figured it would be full of broken plastics, as brittle as the casing can get!

OlePigeon, thanks. Yeah, a food dairy. Now the places he goes to eat are going to think he's a food critique. Falen5, What you think, ROM issue or corrosion on the sockets and …

Terrific job cleaning it up and getting something that nice and useable out of it. Glad that the shipping worked out.

Glad to hear he's OK.  Looks like he'll have to keep a food journal, narrow it down.

A nice find.

Here are the eBay photos of it!

This would be my second PowerBook Duo 230, which I obtained from eBay for a mere $15, sold as-is for parts, as the previous owner could not get it to power on. My guess is they did…

Thanks, and dad says thanks!  He's much better today than he was earlier this week, but the hospital would not release him today. He will be released on Monday. It was something he…

Hi Nicole. Hope your da makes a full recovery girl. Tell him theres a big 'shout out' to him from Ireland and to get himself back here asap - we need his brains!!!! weh hey!

Actually, this is Elfen's youngest daughter Nicole while he is in the hospital with a severe allergy reaction he's recovering from. Dad has taught his girls a great deal about comp…

Cheers Elfen. This machine is 1 of a haul of about 20 macs I got from a guy in cork who spent years 'fiddeling' with macs. When I got there they were all in a mobile home, that wa…

Typical SE, though the scratches and other things on the board looks like somebody tried to tamper or repair it and did not know what they were doing. Fourth pic down, looks like …

Heres a few pictures of an SE I got in a lot last year. The front case is totally smooth. Back case looks like ordinary se case. Don't know whats original or swapped. I opened it…

I was wondering if anyone tried recapping the bad power supply in a PowerMac G5. If that is the problem with them. Is bad caps the cause of so many PowerMac G5 logic board Issues.

Quadraman said: Why did Steve Jobs have to be such a jerk when it came to cooling fans? Most of the issues with these things are the result of overheating leading to parts fa…

Why did Steve Jobs have to be such a jerk when it came to cooling fans? Most of the issues with these things are the result of overheating leading to parts failing. 

It screams of power supply issues. You have no way to say the PSU is in good condition until you are positive the voltage rails are good under load and there is no excessive curren…