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PowerPC Gold Mine!

jrsx said:
Wow....I don't think I've ever personally seen more than three PPC Macs together at one time... LOL
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;)

edit: Crap, those are MacBooks. Imagine the same picture but with 12" and 14" iBook G4s, that was a common scene at my old employer for several years until they started buying groups of MacBooks.

Intelligent said:
:D How many intels do you have in your room? I have 9 (yes you can probably imagine what my room looks like lol)
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21 in my office at the moment, do I get a cookie? :p
 

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Jealous of you all. That room with all the computers looks like heaven. Scrounge together parts from all of them to make functional computers... Sounds like a great day.
 
PowerPC Gold Mine!

Altemose said:
I recommend using a shop vac to blow it out. I do not recommend using compressed air cans as the amount you'd need may cause some liquid to leak out...
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I have a soft tip paintbrush to brush out the major clumps of dust. Then I use compressed air and a vacuum to get the rest out. The worst part of the whole thing was the power supply. It was coated in dust. I felt like I was recovering an artifact...

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That is really dusty. The power supply in my G4 was much the same, it ran so much quieter and cooler once I cleaned more than a decade worth of dust out of it! I'm a big advocate of the paintbrush method, works very well.

Every Mac I've ever come across (even machines dating back to the early 1990s) has a certain type of dust, I've never seen it in any other type of computer. It's really fine and sticks to surfaces much more readily. No idea why. :rolleyes:
 
harrymatic said:
That is really dusty. The power supply in my G4 was much the same, it ran so much quieter and cooler once I cleaned more than a decade worth of dust out of it! I'm a big advocate of the paintbrush method, works very well.

Every Mac I've ever come across (even machines dating back to the early 1990s) has a certain type of dust, I've never seen it in any other type of computer. It's really fine and sticks to surfaces much more readily. No idea why. :rolleyes:
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Yeah I get what you mean. Even the paintbrush couldn't move it at times! Also, the metal covering the power supply had like little dirt spots that like merged with the metal. I used a scrubbing pad to try to get it off and it would not come off. So I just scrubbed until I had a smooth surface. When your hand would touch it before it was all nasty feeling. Now it's nice and smooth! My initial plan was to put the power supply of this Mac into a cleaner one with a broken one, but my cleaning instincts got the best of me and I ended up spending around 2 hours cleaning it!
 
BaddestArvai said:
I have a soft tip paintbrush to brush out the major clumps of dust. Then I use compressed air and a vacuum to get the rest out. The worst part of the whole thing was the power supply. It was coated in dust. I felt like I was recovering an artifact...

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I wouldn't regard that as abuse but rather lack of care. The sad part is seeing how many people do not maintain their computers. By maintain I mean checking the coolant on G5s or replacing the CPU paste every few years...
 
PowerPC Gold Mine!

So I made my second trip today to the gold mine. I was able to come out with a good condition 800Mhz iMac G4 complete with a mouse and keyboard, 4GB of ram for a Powermac G5, and two more studio displays, all for $40 and I traded 3 old LCD monitors that had no use to me as well as a P4 dell tower. I took lots of pictures this time. I asked if he had PowerBooks, and he said he had 3 titanium ones but they were buried somewhere. I was going to buy some of his rare G3 iMacs, but they were all to beat up and scratched and some of them had problems. Here are the pics I took while I was there:

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Here is my G4:

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BaddestArvai said:
So I made my second trip today to the gold mine. I was able to come out with a good condition 800Mhz iMac G4 complete with a mouse and keyboard, 4GB of ram for a Powermac G5, and two more studio displays, all for $40 and I traded 3 old LCD monitors that had no use to me as well as a P4 dell tower. I took lots of pictures this time. I asked if he had PowerBooks, and he said he had 3 titanium ones but they were buried somewhere. I was going to buy some of his rare G3 iMacs, but they were all to beat up and scratched and some of them had problems. Here are the pics I took while I was there:

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How much is this guy asking for G5s? Any quads?
 
Altemose said:
So $25 for a 2.3 dual!? I would snatch that up right away if you can afford it even just to list on the Marketplace here!
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No for the nicer ones he wants $50 or more. I would have gotten one but I didn't see the need to. I could go back in the future and get one. But as of now I have 3 G5's and not a lot of room...
 
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Altemose said:
How much did you pay for the 2.0s? I would love to get a 2.0 with eight RAM slots in good shape? What do they go for nowadays?



My current rig only has 4 RAM slots :(
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Yeah my 1.8 only has 4 slots as well. I paid $25 each for two 2.0s. One has a bad power supply. I just got the other working 2.0 cleaned up and it has an 80Gb HDD in it. All I need to do is run the apple diagnostic to re calibrate everything and it will be ready to go! Otherwise a complete system working I would sell for $125 with keyboard, mouse, and apple display. It would most likely have 2GB of ram. Otherwise that is what I would sell them for. I also had to clean this one out completely because it was clogged with dust.
 
BaddestArvai said:
Yeah my 1.8 only has 4 slots as well. I paid $25 each for two 2.0s. One has a bad power supply. I just got the other working 2.0 cleaned up and it has an 80Gb HDD in it. All I need to do is run the apple diagnostic to re calibrate everything and it will be ready to go! Otherwise a complete system working I would sell for $125 with keyboard, mouse, and apple display. It would most likely have 2GB of ram. Otherwise that is what I would sell them for. I also had to clean this one out completely because it was clogged with dust.
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Thats pretty bad when they are caked with dust that badly. I ended up rebuilding my 1.8's PSU with new caps and I think there was half a dog worth of hair and so much dust...
 
Altemose said:
Thats pretty bad when they are caked with dust that badly. I ended up rebuilding my 1.8's PSU with new caps and I think there was half a dog worth of hair and so much dust...
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Yeah mine was bad there is a picture on the forum here of the power supply. It had dust caked onto everything! The fans were clogged too! I may use the Dual 2.0 for my personal Mac, and then sell my Dual 1.8. I may do a mother board swap because the 1.8 case is in a lot better condition than the 2.0...
 
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So I was able to get the non working 2.0 to work! All I did was take it apart to clean it! Also, I didn't have to re calibrate anything with the ASD disk. It said that everything was already calibrated. I thought this was weird. But I think something is still wrong. When it boots it just revs the fans and makes no apple chime, then loads to the ? HDD. The hard drive is in there. It needs to be formatted to use leopard. But I can't even get it to load the leopard disk. It will only load the ASD disk. When I put the HDD from the other 2.0 in there, it starts to load leopard off of the HDD, but then it goes from the apple logo to a circle with a cross. Some help would be appreciated!
 
BaddestArvai said:
So I was able to get the non working 2.0 to work! All I did was take it apart to clean it! Also, I didn't have to re calibrate anything with the ASD disk. It said that everything was already calibrated. I thought this was weird. But I think something is still wrong. When it boots it just revs the fans and makes no apple chime, then loads to the ? HDD. The hard drive is in there. It needs to be formatted to use leopard. But I can't even get it to load the leopard disk. It will only load the ASD disk. When I put the HDD from the other 2.0 in there, it starts to load leopard off of the HDD, but then it goes from the apple logo to a circle with a cross. Some help would be appreciated!
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Have you tried testing the Mac with the ASD 2.5.8 (The Best Version)? Since that disk boots that would be my first course of action.

That issue with the lack of chime brings up an idea. Try pulling the video card and leaving it out and trying to boot. If it chimes you know its bad. Then try starting it with the other PowerMac's card in there, but don't confuse the two.

Report back when you find something out! This is an interesting thread.
 
Altemose said:
Have you tried testing the Mac with the ASD 2.5.8 (The Best Version)? Since that disk boots that would be my first course of action.



That issue with the lack of chime brings up an idea. Try pulling the video card and leaving it out and trying to boot. If it chimes you know its bad. Then try starting it with the other PowerMac's card in there, but don't confuse the two.



Report back when you find something out! This is an interesting thread.
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The video card I'm using works. The ram I am using works. I have I think ASD 2.5.7. I will run it and check for problems.
 
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