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iMac G5 can run successfully with blown capacitor?

Classic Finder

New member
Hello. I have iMac G5 with blown capacitor. I don't have enough materials for recapping. So will my iMac G5 work fine with the blown capacitor?
 

Byrd

Well-known member
Welcome - quick answer: no, because iMacs of this era are plagued by bad caps, even if just a few appear leaking you can bet many others are marginal. If you don't have the materials I'd look out for another iMac G5 which is cheap and has nil cap leakage - for now.
 

Classic Finder

New member
Welcome - quick answer: no, because iMacs of this era are plagued by bad caps, even if just a few appear leaking you can bet many others are marginal. If you don't have the materials I'd look out for another iMac G5 which is cheap and has nil cap leakage - for now.
Oh, okay. So where can I find the materials then? I can write my iMac details if required.
 

Byrd

Well-known member

Some starters here, you’ll need to research tools and capacitor ratings next.
 

mitchW

Well-known member
iMac G5 may work "fine" with multiple blown (bulging) capacitors, or might fail to POST or exhibit problems with just one defective capacitor.

My iMac G5 (17-inch, 1st version) has 2 bulging capacitors on the mainboard and it works fine. I reccaped the PSU (also very important on those!) about 10 years ago, but the logic board had no blown capacitors at that time.
I used to own an iMac G5 20-inch (last version with DDR2 RAM, etc), and it was crashing all the time. Culprit was one blown capacitor on the board.
 

Classic Finder

New member
iMac G5 may work "fine" with multiple blown (bulging) capacitors, or might fail to POST or exhibit problems with just one defective capacitor.

My iMac G5 (17-inch, 1st version) has 2 bulging capacitors on the mainboard and it works fine. I reccaped the PSU (also very important on those!) about 10 years ago, but the logic board had no blown capacitors at that time.
I used to own an iMac G5 20-inch (last version with DDR2 RAM, etc), and it was crashing all the time. Culprit was one blown capacitor on the board.
My iMac G5 have 2 blown capacitor. And display not working. This is interesting.
 
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