1.25ghz eMac, What are my options?

[Mars478]

So an eMac at my school has been acting up. I checked the CD Drive cover and it indicated to me that it is a 1.25ghz machine.

What the machine does is, Sometimes not wake up from sleep. Completely freeze When you are using it and other strange occurences.

Now after some digging around in my brain I remember that these were made at around the same time as my iMac G5, which most of the problems come from leaky caps.

So a while ago I read online when I got my 700mhz eMac I read about the cap failures on these 1.25ghz models. I popped the little memory cover, and lo and behold there was a leaking capacitor :simasimac:

What my question is, what are my options?

 

[Cory5412]

First of all, stop using the system immediately, Unplug it and remove the board if you have to.

If you follow that advice, then you may have a pretty cheap repair job on your hands. All you need to do is replace the caps.

If you keep using it until it really dies, then you may need to replace the entire board. You could take it to Apple and see if they'll do it, some stores are still doing it even today, but the program officially ended a few years ago.

There are some shops and individuals that are willing to do it for a fee if you ship them the bad board, so you may look into that.

 

[Mars478]

Cool. I thought about ReCapping it as the other option is throwing out and I would hate to do that to a 1.25ghz emac.

Anyways its good practice as I have to do it to my G5 (Leaky Caps :simasimac: )

 

[Osgeld]

Before you dare touch a soldering iron again, go down to the local thrift / goodwill / junk shop and pick up the oldest VCR they have and practice until you have a confident method going on

(older vcr's are loaded with all sorts of practice)

 

[Mike Richardson]

Don't solder anything yet. Try asking Apple first. Call 1-800-SOS-APPL or whatever their phone number is. Talk to the first guy, who will probably deny the repair, then ask to speak to the supervisor. The supervisor will usually approve the repair, and she will give you some numbers to write down. Take the eMac and those numbers to the Genius bar and they will perform the repair. The motherboard will be shipped in from whatever store has a spare motherboard lying around.

I accidentally upgraded one of my eMacs this way. It's the one I use in the warehouse as my main Mac. It was really a 1.25 GHz with bad caps (I did not know this at the time, all I knew is that it had bad caps) - but someone before me had taken and switched the CD doors with a top of the line 1.42 GHz model. So it was accepted for a board replacement and they used a 1.42 GHz board.

When I booted it up it only had an 80 GB hard drive (but it did have a Superdrive) - and I learned later that 1.42 GHz eMacs didn't suffer from the bad caps, so I deduced that it must have really been a 1.25 GHz SD model. Oh well!

 

[Mars478]

I will definitleyly try that. May be I should scour a 1.42ghz Drive cover so that they do that to this one!

 

[Mars478]

Before you dare touch a soldering iron again, go down to the local thrift / goodwill / junk shop and pick up the oldest VCR they have and practice until you have a confident method going on
(older vcr's are loaded with all sorts of practice)

Oh and rest assured, I have gotten better.

 

[Mike Richardson]

I will definitleyly try that. May be I should scour a 1.42ghz Drive cover so that they do that to this one!

I wouldn't recommend doing that purposefully. It was just an accident in my case, plus the tech failed to notice the old board was a 1.25 GHz and the serials didn't match!

 

[Mars478]

Yeah I am just kidding. |)

 

[Mars478]

:lol:

:scrambled: Your an Apple Genius?

 

[Mars478]

You mightve taken my comment incorrectly. I wasn't laughing at you. I was laughing at the fact Mike was making fun (Well not really) of Apple Geniuci

 

[Mars478]

Genuici= Genius's, I made up a word. :scrambled:

 

[Mars478]

Well I'd like to revive this thread, because I am recapping the board right now. I have done 3 so far with success, I get to test it on monday.

 

[Osgeld]

thats good, go slow and take breaks

GOOD LUCK!

 

[Mars478]

Yeah maybe I can fix something this time instead of breaking it :b&w:

 

[Christopher]

Word of advice, apple techs are not allowed to share what they do on the interwebs. If apple finds out, instant fire from job I hear.

Extremely strict on guidelines.

 

[Mars478]

Word of advice, apple techs are not allowed to share what they do on the interwebs. If apple finds out, instant fire from job I hear.
Extremely strict on guidelines.

huh? What's that have to do with anything?

 

[Christopher]

Word of advice, apple techs are not allowed to share what they do on the interwebs. If apple finds out, instant fire from job I hear.
Extremely strict on guidelines.

huh? What's that have to do with anything?

Because you kept asking a certain someone (who's now had their posts removed for some reason) about where they work.

 

[Mars478]

Woah, I hope I did not cause him any trouble 8-o .



How did he remove his posts if there is a no edit after 1 hour?!