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Looks like both have been recapped, because I only see the little ceramic style caps where the silver cans were originally.  And I see that both boards are missing the voltage regulator cards.  If no one else is interested, I'd be curious what the shipping cost would be.  Better to hold onto...

I followed this video's suggestion to stick an older card into the late 2005 G5, and it works fine.   In Apple system profiler, the card appears under PCI, listed in slot 'GIGE'. Normal PCIe cards are listed in 'SLOT-1', and so on. Edit: not sure why it's in the list twice. Given that this...

Thanks for the pictures. Hopefully I can make some progress as time goes on. Actually, the board is small enough that making it isn't expensive. The time consuming part will be tracing it all out and making the board files. Finding the connector will be the next hard part. And if it really is...

@jeremywork Thanks for your fast response.  The camera flash looks like it washed out the traces in a fair few of the pictures.  We can try playing with the levels for the darker pictures.  It's hard taking pictures of small traces on dark PCBs. If you could run it on a scanner just to see...

This is a request for anyone that has a late 2005 G5 with the factory Bluetooth install. Due to the fact that the 'runway' card is basically impossible to find at a reasonable price, I'm looking for high resolution images of both sides of it. This seems like the kind of thing that someone...

Yes, they do.  I also have a 190 (CS) and haven't gotten around to it.  The power circuitry under the trackpad needs to be recapped, probably the power adapters, and probably the LCD.

I figure it's better to have one thread for all instead of a thread each. Yesterday I found a Smart and Friendly CD Copy Rocket Mach 12, complete in box!  For $25.  Imgur link: https://imgur.com/gallery/MwSZ3nq This thing is a monster for its time.  12x SCSI CD burner and 32x SCSI CD reader. ...

I think it's mostly the 'eBay effect' where the seller has to charge more.  eBay takes 10% of the final sell price including shipping.  So people are incentivized to mega overcharge.

Perhaps not as cool as some of the other conquests here, but I recently bought a PowerBook 190CS 'for parts' from eBay. (https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Apple-Macintosh-PowerBook-190cs-Powers-on-Parts-or-Repair/263974755872) Upon receipt of the laptop, I took it apart and what do you know?  A...

How long are you waiting to see whether the video out works?  My beige g3 will often sit for two or three minutes inexplicably before suddenly the video comes in and the machine boots up.  Currently unknown cause.  Do you have the power supply jumper on the logic board set to the PC setting?

If you decide that you need to replace the BU406 transistor, I have a few of them left over from repairing an SE/30 with that 'right side of the screen wiggles' issue.

Could reseating the RAM resolve this issue? If full columns are appearing and disappearing, then maybe those pins on the RAM simms are not making full contact? 

I recently re-capped a Quadra 610 for a friend, and his board is in way better shape than mine (no damaged traces that I can see).  I verified that all of my bodge wires are in the right places by tracing the circuits on that other board.  But his has the same issue as mine:  chimes of death...

Thanks.  Now I know that C197 and C196 are only connected to the vias on either side of them.  Time to do more trace-tracing - my vias there look eaten through. On another kind of interesting note, if I completely remove U46 I still get sound and the chimes of death.  I'm wondering what that...

I'm still looking for a picture of the bottom of the Q610 motherboard, right near the power supply cable pins.  C197, C196, C195, that sort of area.  The traces between C197 and C196 are all completely gone.  Looks like there's a wide trace and maybe some thinner ones.  @360alaska When you have...

@tanaquil I often use Noctua NT-H1, because I often buy Noctua fans. It's not the ultimate high-end stuff, but it's definitely top tier.

Thanks @Bolle.  I have a lot more wire tracing to do. I did mostly check that visibly broken wires were actually broken. On my next sweep of the board I'm going to check more carefully. There are a lot of smeared traces from the capacitor stuff.

This project is not dead!  I'm waiting for some things to come in the mail so I can do hot air desoldering and clean up some chips which have corrosion on their pins.  And I'll clean up the connections to U46 while I'm at it.

I've repaired (bodged) all the traces I knew were broken, and made a little progress. Instead of silence and no video when I push the power button, I get the usual startup tone followed by the eight tone chime of death (and still no video). Edit: anyone have a good resource for figuring out...

@360alaska thanks. Can you also get a picture of the first area, with c194 through c197? It's next to the power supply plug on the bottom of the board.