M235i
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I recently bought a Power Mac G4 Gigabit (450DP, 128MB) at a thrift shop. It was working when I tested it at the store, and it powered on and attempted to boot it. When I got home, I hooked it to my ADC Studio Display it powered on fine, but had a kernel panic before it could fully boot to the operating system. After taking the HDD out to replace it with another IDE drive, it now fails to so much as turn on. Different power cords and displays failed to repair this, as well as a CUDA, SMC, PMU and RAM reset, reseat, and replacement.
I then put that to the side and two weeks ago picked up another PM G4 Gigabit for free at VCF East on the last day in an attempt to fix the other one. Got that home and also proceeded to power on at all. Nothing seems to be unseated, and I can only assume that I will need a new PSU, which I cannot find a good replacement for under $50, which is crazy. I am aware of the ATX-to-G4 PSU mod, but I would really prefer to still have the ADC power available to the Studio Display.
Would it be possible to reflow the PSU? I have a guide that I am ready to use, but I am not sure that it will be a permanent fix? Any ideas on repair?
I then put that to the side and two weeks ago picked up another PM G4 Gigabit for free at VCF East on the last day in an attempt to fix the other one. Got that home and also proceeded to power on at all. Nothing seems to be unseated, and I can only assume that I will need a new PSU, which I cannot find a good replacement for under $50, which is crazy. I am aware of the ATX-to-G4 PSU mod, but I would really prefer to still have the ADC power available to the Studio Display.
Would it be possible to reflow the PSU? I have a guide that I am ready to use, but I am not sure that it will be a permanent fix? Any ideas on repair?