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Feb 20 2005

Take it out back and shoot it

My Mac is, for all intents and purposes (or intensive purposes, if you don't like correctness and sense), dead. Definitely a hardware problem, most probably a motherboard problem. Not something, in short, that would be worth fixing, even if I had the money and inclination to do so. Poor guy. He was really spiffy when he was new, with a mighty 450mhz G3 processor, DVD drive (they were still fairly unusual in PCs at the time), SCSI card, firewire, etc, and cost a wopping $2,519 when new. But he's old now, and I can't even get the OS to reinstall, and if I did, he would still crash randomly when I use him. So it's time to say goodbye to my poor blue-and-white friend. He served me---not particularly well, what with all the crashing, actually. But he was pretty!

Hmm. I wonder if I could build a different computer inside his case. Like how Roy Rogers had the family dog stuffed? Probably not, I bet they have some damned proprietary connectors for the power button, and mounting an ATX motherboard would be a nightmare. Most likely. Feh. Anyone have a .22 I could borrow?

1 comment

  1. Reuben

    Check the psu under load. Usually the first thing to go in equipment.

    Then follow the "troubleshooting digital circuits mantra":
    -ICs first
    -then transistors
    -then caps

    Happy hunting.

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