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I recently recovered my brother's old iMac G4 lamp 20". The LCD panel should be good, but it's either the mobo or the psu who falied.
Since this thing has been sitting in a garage for a few years, I don't want to spend money on it before I test that the monitor actually works. I got an inexpensive, yet easy to use, hdmi plug with screw terminals, but after I connected all of the video signals, I realized I am not understanding how to manage power supply, in particular for a test. I don't want to buy a notebook PSU + a picoPSU + a 24v step-up converter just to test if it works: is there a way to power on the lcd panel using one or more variable dc PSUs, and how?
In the meantime, I post my own imac to hdmi conversion table, derived from dremeljunkie's dvi table, specific to the 20" model.
Hope it can be useful to someone.
Since this thing has been sitting in a garage for a few years, I don't want to spend money on it before I test that the monitor actually works. I got an inexpensive, yet easy to use, hdmi plug with screw terminals, but after I connected all of the video signals, I realized I am not understanding how to manage power supply, in particular for a test. I don't want to buy a notebook PSU + a picoPSU + a 24v step-up converter just to test if it works: is there a way to power on the lcd panel using one or more variable dc PSUs, and how?
In the meantime, I post my own imac to hdmi conversion table, derived from dremeljunkie's dvi table, specific to the 20" model.
Hope it can be useful to someone.