[G4] Happy chance buy of 1 ghz dual G4!!

[lunatikdesigns]

Well, I need to check on it somehow ­ so will be taking it apart for now ­
and will try my 933 processor on it to see if it works ­ if not, just one a
dual 1gz on ebay so one of them is going to be running a bit faster soon!!

cyndi


On 3/2/08 6:58 PM, "Brian Deuel" <fusekigames at briandeuel.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> This is exactly what happened to my dual 1.25ghz MDD when the processor
> card fried. Your motherboard is probably still good, but I'd be willing
> to bet that if you remove the heat sink and processor card, either one
> or both of your processors will be a little charred.
> 
> (Or not. Processor failures don't necessarily have to be that
> catastrophic).
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:42:59 -0800, "lunatikdesigns"
> <lunatikdesigns at gmail.com> said:
>> > Okay ­ here I was talking about upgrading and I ran across a
>> > non-funtioning
>> > G4 quick silver that says it has a 1 ghz dual processor ­ BUT!!  It
>> > doesn¹t
>> > work!  Okay ­ what I can see when I power it up is that the fan works ­
>> > power source is probably okay then, right?  And the motherboard does
>> > light
>> > up  ..... But it doesn¹t work ­ it came with no memory or hard drive or
>> > OS,
>> > so I swapped out my HD and memory and tried to get it to start up with no
>> > luck ­ oh, changed the pram  - new battery ­ what else can I check?
>> > Suggestions? Is it probably the processor that is dead then if the light
>> > on
>> > the motherboard lights up or does that mean anything?  Help help help <g>
>> > 
>> > Cyndi
> 
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