Fauty Capacitors on the iMac G5 Motherboard

I am a Computer Engineer and opened up my mac when I heard that the faulty manufactured capacitors may effect my iMac. I have 25 of the defective caps on the motherboard all of which are not showing any sign of swelling yet but I know they will sooner or later, does Apples componet replacement program cover machines that are not showing signs of swelling or the faults they are describing. Dell is replacing there motherboards before they fail as if they do fail they take out other componets on the motherboards as well as blowing hard drives etc.

iMac G5, G4, G3, Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Feb 23, 2006 1:51 PM

17 replies

Rod Hagen

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May 10, 2006 4:12 AM in response to myhighway

I believe it took about six months.

During this time, however, the iMacs were covered by Apple anyway, as the "first generation" iMacs were all within the 12 month warranty period at that time.

Cheers

Rod

Rod Hagen

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May 10, 2006 4:16 AM in response to Herschel Hochman

Herschell. You have a 2 GHz "ALS" iMac. The capacitor issue only affected the "first generation" 1.6 and 1.8 MHz models, fitted with the NVIDIA GX video card. You have nothing to worry about in this area.

Cheers

Rod

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Fauty Capacitors on the iMac G5 Motherboard