iMac G5 - stuck at blue screen

-- I posted this to the 10.4 forum, but a user suggested to post here, as it may be a hardware issue... --

Hi, I have an iMac G5, which was running 10.4.11. There was a sudden power failure for 1 second during a thunderstorm. Now here is the problem. iMac will not start up past blue screen. I tried the following, but still not able to "restore" the system back into the hard drive.

* Command option+PR (no luck, still blue screen after restart)
* held down SHIFT for safe mode (was able to get in and back up stuff)
* Command+S, fsck -fy, reboot (no luck, still blue screen after restart)
* Started from original installer disk #1 (tried to repair disk, but still blue screen after restart)


As my final attempt, I tried to restore from the installer disk #1, but when I returned to check on the machine, it has a blue screen on it.

I even tried a fresh clean install, but again when I returned to to check on the machine, it had a blue screen on it.

I don't know if it restarted, since I didn't watch the entire disk #1 install.

Is this a hardware issue?
Any do-it-yourself parts that I can try to replace?

PB 15 2.33ghz, 120gb HD, 3GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Aug 16, 2010 10:18 AM

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Aug 19, 2010 12:45 PM in response to MGW

Digging more info into this. I took a look at the capacitors on the logic board, and a few of them have stuff on top of them (ie: leaking).

The article / pic is on this link:
http://jimwarholic.com/2008/07/how-to-repair-apple-imac-g5.php

Hmm.. thinking if I should replace these capacitors myself. 😉

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