>Bought iShit G5 for $5 at swap meet
>Turns On
>No display
Now wat?
Bought iShit G5 for $5 at swap meet
Evan Lopez
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Jaxson Hall
Use your iMac doorstep.
Adrian Hughes
install gentoo
Daniel Hernandez
first go back to Sup Forums
then open up the case and check the connectors
Grayson Sanchez
>G5 iMac
Probably blown capacitors like all the other iMac G5s out there.
Cameron Lopez
So it can be fixed for
Justin James
Install manjaro
Aiden Ortiz
Have you tried installing Gentoo?
Elijah Cook
Can't seen anything user
Jaxon Kelly
What other purpose does this have besides being a door stop?
Chase Ortiz
Why buy old shit if you're not intrested in it or don't know how to fix it?
Hudson Walker
Well given the fact I've never messed with Apple before thought it might of been fun but have no fucking idea how to diagnose them
John Parker
You "diagnose" it like any ither system you fucking moron.
Plug in an external display, whether or not it turns on will help you narrow down the problem.
Thomas Carter
Don't have any adapter so I'm pretty screwed. I've already took the whole thing apart and all the caps seem fine and it chimes when powered on, but there's no display shown.
Oliver Bailey
Why do Sup Forums tards think you can just put any computer parts in any case?
Logan Allen
If you have another G5 and a firewire cable you can run recovery mode by linking them together.
No idea why the fuck they designed it that way.
Jordan Collins
Yeah I dunno either, and this is the first apple product I own so I have nothing else.
Henry Hernandez
Replace the CMOS battery. That's the most common "no display" cause in Macs.
Also, try holding down the power button with all cables, including the power cable, disconnected. Then reconnect and try again.
Christian Peterson
OK I'm going to try right now I'll keep you guys posted, thanks user.
Luis Lewis
So I just got the entire thing disassembled, and the caps all look to be in great shape. About to change the cmos and see what happens. Can't upload file because the pic is too large.
Benjamin Cooper
>capacitors are proprietary
lol
Jeremiah Parker
nvm i misread
Luke Richardson
Well, at least you've established yourself and a very modern and progressive person.
Dylan Evans
>>Bought iShit
Found your problem.
Daniel Gonzalez
>apple shit
For what reason?
Aiden Cruz
>G5
>5$
??
Isaiah Parker
someone gave me one once and I ended up giving it to someone else
apparently the GPU on the mobo goes bad on those and it needs fixed/replaced
back in the day when it was more relevant that it is today, no repair place would fix it because they all claimed to have a bunch and would prefer i bought one
Gavin Ramirez
Liam Allen
So idiots can transfer all the data to their new mac. Its also convenient for cloning over OS installs between machines.
John Phillips
'le infamous BGA display ribbon cable failure which kills all 17" acrylic macs
you'll probably need a new display-logic-daughterboard thing idk what it's called on macs
Lucas Green
>Probably blown capacitors like all the other iMac G5s out there.
Oh my fucking God, no, it's not the capacitors.