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- Jan 13, 2005
I cant find any where on the interwebs if the PSU in a G4 power mac, specifically a 400Mhz AGP graphics G4 with gigabit (yea I thought it was odd too), was a standard ATX pin out or apple proprietary.
I pulled it out, the only thing that seems special on it is how the molex connectors were cut to length for the specific application. its a regular looking PSU, unlike some of the other model G4s out there were they are flat and long or just off the wall odd shaped, this ones a regular rectangle with standard 4 pin molex and a regular looking mobo connector.
I was wanting to play around with it, I picked it up years ago, never tried it but I was bored today so i gave it a shot. when I plugged it in it just started hissing, I unplugged it and that's when it started smelling like ammonia and I cracked the case open to air it out. apparently when I plugged it in it was the last straw for a cap on a standby circuit and it started hosing its guts out all over inside the PSU. fun times. glad the mobo was unhooked when I did this
I pulled it out, the only thing that seems special on it is how the molex connectors were cut to length for the specific application. its a regular looking PSU, unlike some of the other model G4s out there were they are flat and long or just off the wall odd shaped, this ones a regular rectangle with standard 4 pin molex and a regular looking mobo connector.
I was wanting to play around with it, I picked it up years ago, never tried it but I was bored today so i gave it a shot. when I plugged it in it just started hissing, I unplugged it and that's when it started smelling like ammonia and I cracked the case open to air it out. apparently when I plugged it in it was the last straw for a cap on a standby circuit and it started hosing its guts out all over inside the PSU. fun times. glad the mobo was unhooked when I did this
