… and so it goes

02020-05-20 | Uncategorized | 4 comments

I think it is the power supply of the G4 that has been dying. I found an identical machine for $270 and bought it. It won’t arrive here before the end of next week and then I’ll have to move the hard drives and the RAM over from the old Old machine to the new Old machine. Hopefully it will work out and I can keep working. When the album is finished I will have the peace of mind to update my system and method.

Oh, and the odd iMac keyboard with a power button that was said to turn the G4 on… didn’t work.

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  1. JaneParhamKatz

    Dear Wise Vintage Man, it seems you have reached a solution to get you through completing your new album. You know, I wish you didn’t have to give your time and talent to these tech functions, but I guess it all contributes to personal growth! I see now that you are wise not to go down the path of revising your entire system, since you do need to focus on creating your album. Also, delaying your system update may be beneficial since a new 5G era is approaching.

    From the two previews of your new album you shared with us, it appears it is going to be wonderful.

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  2. Steve

    I’d be willing to bet that the power rail supplied to the motherboard is drooping across the board (see what I did there?) Doesn’t take much for this vintage machine to not boot with a droopy power rail.

    Usually there are multiple values being sourced from a single power supply subsystem: 3.3V, 5V, 12V, etc … often when one gets droopy (by as little as 10%) the others will also get noisy and have poor regulation: under current, over current … all over the place. The main thing about soft-fail power supplies is that often times the droop on the supply rail can damage otherwise good subsystems (like processors, HD, memory, etc) … but not always. There’s plenty of room for luck.

    You can get a new power supply from several places, if you wanted to , not the least of which being Other World Computing (https://macsales.com)

    You probably don’t want to troubleshoot that power supply … and I am speaking as an electronics/engineering nerd. It’s really not worth it.

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    • ottmar

      Thanks for the info. I was able to order a used machine that is the same model number and specs and hope to simply move the RAM and HDs over to this machine. I should receive the machine at the end of the week.

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