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Hello!
After a couple of weeks fighting to survive an old friend's iMac G4 15", I discovered this forum and the the mods you guys have been doing years ago. So I started searching for 17" units (locating a single unit of the 20" has been an impossible task, not sure if it was sold here in Spain). After some research I purchased three second hand units:
First thing was trying the inverter of 3rd unit.
After having all set, when turning the PSU on all I could see was 1 sec flashlight at the screen. I checked the wiring and everything seemed to be OK. Then I remember about reading the same issue at the forum and all comments pointed a matter of GND connection. So I plugged one crocodile from the faraday cage to the crocodile giving GND to the black wire of inverter cable: that was it. It seems that even though testing the inverter (that apparently does not intervine with the cage) this must be given an stable GND. For more detail of connections, check out this video:
Next step: wiring the LMVDS cable and getting two 5.5/2.5 female connectors out of the single cable of NUC PSU (one for the PicoPSU and the other one for the NUC). Keep you posted!
After a couple of weeks fighting to survive an old friend's iMac G4 15", I discovered this forum and the the mods you guys have been doing years ago. So I started searching for 17" units (locating a single unit of the 20" has been an impossible task, not sure if it was sold here in Spain). After some research I purchased three second hand units:
- First unit I got (17" 1Ghz, 100€) was perfect. It worked so well that I kept it as it is and gave it to my friend to substitute his 15" - it gives smooth Photoshop performance under 2 GB ram and airport extreme WiFi card permits e-mail reading.
- Second unit I purchased was even better: whole set including speakers for 100€. However, this unit doesn't boot up (original PSU not working and loosy neck)
- Third unit was only 20€ and only included the upper part, that is, screen and dome. No motherboard, no CD, not even the bottom part with I/O sockets.
First thing was trying the inverter of 3rd unit.
After having all set, when turning the PSU on all I could see was 1 sec flashlight at the screen. I checked the wiring and everything seemed to be OK. Then I remember about reading the same issue at the forum and all comments pointed a matter of GND connection. So I plugged one crocodile from the faraday cage to the crocodile giving GND to the black wire of inverter cable: that was it. It seems that even though testing the inverter (that apparently does not intervine with the cage) this must be given an stable GND. For more detail of connections, check out this video:
Next step: wiring the LMVDS cable and getting two 5.5/2.5 female connectors out of the single cable of NUC PSU (one for the PicoPSU and the other one for the NUC). Keep you posted!
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