I just got an 17" Imac G5, not intel. I have a 20" Imac G5 that I already replaced the caps on and it is working perfect. The 20" had around 5 1000uf 16v caps and 20 1800uf 6.3v caps.
The 17" I just got is very flakey and will shutdown before loading OSX and *sometimes* the screen has vertical lines in it. I took a look at the caps and every single cap is 1800uf 6.3v. Also there are a few caps that are a little higher than the rest. So I am kind of thinking the motherboard has already been recapped and the person who recapped it didn't replace the 5 1000uf caps with the correct rated caps.
Now here is the question. Do the 17" imacs only use 1800uf 6.3v caps? Or should there be some 1000uf 16v caps in there? Could this be the problem with the Imac?
All of the caps look good no bulging or leaking but I don't really want to go though the effort of replacing the caps unless I have reason to believe they are the problems.
The 17" I just got is very flakey and will shutdown before loading OSX and *sometimes* the screen has vertical lines in it. I took a look at the caps and every single cap is 1800uf 6.3v. Also there are a few caps that are a little higher than the rest. So I am kind of thinking the motherboard has already been recapped and the person who recapped it didn't replace the 5 1000uf caps with the correct rated caps.
Now here is the question. Do the 17" imacs only use 1800uf 6.3v caps? Or should there be some 1000uf 16v caps in there? Could this be the problem with the Imac?
All of the caps look good no bulging or leaking but I don't really want to go though the effort of replacing the caps unless I have reason to believe they are the problems.
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