A Performa 400 and G4 PowerMac

[CompuNurd]

I picked up the Performa and G4 today. I am glad to say the Performa arrived in one piece, but I wish I could say the same about the G4. It was loose in a box, with no bubblewrap or peanuts. There was a small wad of brown paper on one side of the box, and a piece of cardboard on top. Might as well slap a label on the computer itself and give it to the shipping company! When I opened the case, the CPU, graphics card, RAM, and PRAM battery fell out. Several CPU pins on the motherboard were bent, so I tried to straighten them with a small flathead screwdriver. I re-seated everything and fired it up. All I get are a few fans, no video, and a red light on the motherboard. If any of you have suggestions of what to do besides replace the entire computer, feel free!



On the other hand, the Performa arrived firmly packaged, wrapped in several layers of bubblewrap, and surrounded by peanuts. It just needs a hard drive and new caps. I didn't get a picture of it, but everything is intact and it is in fairly good cosmetic condition.

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

Eek, that's going to be hard to fix. It's possible some solder joints were damaged. I'd remove and reseat everything (including power connectors) carefully.

Sometimes even well packed stuff comes loose, when I got my G5 one of the CPU vanity covers had popped off and was flying around inside the case.

 

[jholt5638]

This is one I had, sorry I packed it poor I was leaving that day and wanted to get it out, good in a way atleast you it if I would've waited it'd at the scrap yard with the rest of the macs I had. The CPU is from a Quicksilver so the 12V line that cut off the one molex connector attaches to the unused mounting hole on the CPU card

 

[CompuNurd]

I read over what I originally posted and I sound very rude. Even though I was surprised to find it packaged that way, there is no excuse to act like a complete jerk.

I hooked the 12V line to the unused mounting point and it fired right up!

 

[jholt5638]

Sorry again for the way it was packed, glad it still works though. In the future I'll take more care in shipping

 

[CompuNurd]

No hard feelings 

The only question I have is the red light on the motherboard. Is that just a status indicator or is that something I should be worried about?

 

[jholt5638]

I believe its just a indicator GBE I had  has a blue light comes on when powered and the MDD I believe has a red one

 

[jholt5638]

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA26365?viewlocale=en_US its just power on light so people don't start pulling cards or ram out while the machine is in sleep mode