I was sort of talked into buying a Quad 2.5 Powermac a few weeks ago.
I have the 2.0 Dual Core late 2005 and very happy with it, but this Quad came at me quite suddenly. Doesn't matter, I have it.
Anyway, it was missing a hard drive and video card so I swapped mine into it.
One red light appears when it is just plugged in. It has the start up chime, but then two other red lights come on and no picture, and then, full fan blast.
I tried to blow some dust out of it, restart, reset pram reseat ram, nothing.
I noticed that inside the liquid cooling pieces, there are some dark green dots of something on the upright side of the top of the processors. The draining pad is mottled but I see no evidence of liquid cooling "spills" other than a sort of ragged pad underneath.
It is a mid 2006 build. Falls just out of the powersupply extended warranty serial numbers. Delphi liquid cooling system.
If this is a major processor/logic board repair, I am not happy.
I heard someone somewhere write that if you can "reseat" the processors sometimes you can bring the Mac back to life.
This thing has never worked for me. I just don't know what to do.
If this is the famous liquid spill, I suppose I'd have to pull out the processors? I don't know what the dark green "dots" of some sort of substance is on the upright side of the logicboard/cooling area. Either it is some sort of marking or possibly, liquid coolant splattered there?
Any advice would be appreciated. Hard to believe such an expensive piece of hardware is kaput. I've seen old Titanium Powerbooks powerup after years of abuse, yet these Powermacs seem to be very unstable?
Thanks for anything you might know.
I have the 2.0 Dual Core late 2005 and very happy with it, but this Quad came at me quite suddenly. Doesn't matter, I have it.
Anyway, it was missing a hard drive and video card so I swapped mine into it.
One red light appears when it is just plugged in. It has the start up chime, but then two other red lights come on and no picture, and then, full fan blast.
I tried to blow some dust out of it, restart, reset pram reseat ram, nothing.
I noticed that inside the liquid cooling pieces, there are some dark green dots of something on the upright side of the top of the processors. The draining pad is mottled but I see no evidence of liquid cooling "spills" other than a sort of ragged pad underneath.
It is a mid 2006 build. Falls just out of the powersupply extended warranty serial numbers. Delphi liquid cooling system.
If this is a major processor/logic board repair, I am not happy.
I heard someone somewhere write that if you can "reseat" the processors sometimes you can bring the Mac back to life.
This thing has never worked for me. I just don't know what to do.
If this is the famous liquid spill, I suppose I'd have to pull out the processors? I don't know what the dark green "dots" of some sort of substance is on the upright side of the logicboard/cooling area. Either it is some sort of marking or possibly, liquid coolant splattered there?
Any advice would be appreciated. Hard to believe such an expensive piece of hardware is kaput. I've seen old Titanium Powerbooks powerup after years of abuse, yet these Powermacs seem to be very unstable?
Thanks for anything you might know.