Odd problems with an iMac G5 (iSight)

[joeboxerca]

ShiryuX, what about your iMac?
The hairdryer has solved your problem? I write you as I'm now in the same situation: A1145 with internal drive not recognized.
Prima di abbandonare la sfida ero interessato a sapere come è andata la tua storia, se è ancora possibile fammi sapere.

Merry Christmas!
[doublepost=1513409739][/doublepost]Sorry translate in en sounds like that:
Before leaving the challenge, I was interested in knowing how your story went, if you can still let me know.

Again, Merry Christmas!

 

[justperry]

ShiryuX, what about your iMac?
The hairdryer has solved your problem? I write you as I'm now in the same situation: A1145 with internal drive not recognized.
Prima di abbandonare la sfida ero interessato a sapere come è andata la tua storia, se è ancora possibile fammi sapere.

Merry Christmas!
[doublepost=1513409739][/doublepost]Sorry translate in en sounds like that:
Before leaving the challenge, I was interested in knowing how your story went, if you can still let me know.

Again, Merry Christmas!

1. This post is over 5 years old, better start your own thread if you have problems.

2. Your HD is probably fried, a new one might fix your problems.

Edited for grammar/spelling.

 

[laurihoefs]

Most likely it’s a bad hard drive, like justperry said.

However, I had a 20” iMac G5 iSight that didn’t recognize any hard drives, and occasionally froze when booted from a Leopard install disk.

There were a number of leaky capacitors on the logic board and in the PSU, changing them fixed all of the issues.



Edit: I know I’m replying to something that was said five years ago, but want to add this in for anyone stumbling across this thread.

The iSight G5 iMacs certainly do have issues with bad caps. Some of the symptoms I’ve come across are:
-fans running at full speed
-freezing or sudden reboots, especially under heavy loads
-unable to recognize hard drives

The caps on the logic board are on the back side. There are just a handful, but getting to them and soldering them is a bit more difficult than with earlier G5 iMacs. The PSU caps are (relatively) easy to get to, so replacing them first and seeing if that helps might be worthwile.

 

[ShiryuX]

Yeah the HD issue isn’t related to what I had. But I guess five years down the road I can let you know the hairdryer fix was only good for about 1-2 weeks before the iMac completely gave up on me.

Merry Christmas everyone !