What I meant by cleaning the whole board was that I used a soft toothbrush with a little water. I did let it dry completely and even used a hair dryer on the low setting to make su…

I think perhaps we need more detail on what you mean by "cleaned the whole board"

Did you get my PM? Did the stuff I sent you work/helped?

Hey fellow Newtonians! I need your help in fixing my eMate! The short of the story... I had it sitting in a chair under my dining room table. I had tomato's sitting on the table, a…

Mike, I have completely dismantled a G3 AIO before. It took me a couple of hours, and is kind of a pain, but it can be done. The nice part is the analog board slides out after yo…

If anyone needs ROM 2.5.1 or an ISO image for an entire G4 system restore CD with Mac OS 8.6, please PM me and I will be happy to provide you with the links. The ISO is about 380M…

Congrats on fixing it, Mike! Capacitors commit suicide more often than do resistors, so you likely have truly fixed the problem, and can look forward to it working for a good long …

For a long time Apple would replace or repair those failed B&W CRTs. A 2-3 years back a friend of mine called about it, as he had read something on Apple Discussions or in …

PM sent. Let it charge at least 4 hours. It still could have a capacity and internal drop problem, but a full charge will give it the best chance of running the machine. My unde…

But before that, it would not hurt to leave it plugged in even if not properly recognized and see if it gets any gradual charging over several days time-perhaps the gas gauge is ju…

Should the machine show a menu bar symbol that it is plugged in? I seem to remember one on another machine that I ran OSX on. What are the symptoms of a bad power board?

The batteries age by increasing their internal impedance (voltage drop under load) as well as by capacity (amp-hours) loss. They can show a fairly full gas gauge (reasonable no lo…

I am typing this on the G5. After about three hours today, and an hour yesterday, plus two hours at Fry's (They only had one capacitor. The guy had to find the other one. I also ha…

Try the battery in the right hand expansion bay with the machine first running on AC also, and again ignore the status icon and just pull AC power to see if the Lombard switches ov…

Try the battery in the right hand expansion bay with the machine first running on AC also, and again ignore the status icon and just pull AC power to see if the Lombard switches ov…

So your able to fix it? BTW that quicksilver rocks! Thanks again.

and it seems to reset the battery's power manager and gives it a cold-reboot Click to expand... I decided to wipe to drive and install OS9 so I could run the battery reset prog…

It was not a resistor that burned - it was a capacitor. My friend mis-identified it.

Just as an opposing data point: Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:49:58 -0600From: Swift Subject: Powerbook G4 Battery Resuscitation I too had a battery that my Titanium Powerbook…

Hm. I'll have to give that a try then. But I hope you'll forgive me if I try wally's method and the open firmware one first Did you do this on lithium batteries, or the "Inte…

there is a way to reset the battery power manager. Take a wire and short both the + and - terminals. It will short out the power manager and reset it. Click to expand... Now,…

there is a way to reset the battery power manager. Take a wire and short both the + and - terminals. It will short out the power manager and reset it. Click to expand... Now,…

I have another G5 that just sits in my bedroom collecting dust - a Dual Core 2.3 GHz model with PCI Express, that I got for $150 - it freezes up about 10 minutes after you use it, …

Luckily you've got that macbookpro, and USB/SATA adapters so you c an get your data off of the G5 are not that expensive.

While I hope that your cheerful optimism proves out, it may turn out that the burned resistors are a symptom, not a cause. Resistors are pretty hardy, and not generally given to sp…