Apple iMac G5 PowerPC Motherboard Backside View
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This picture shows the capacitors' locations, sizes, and values for Apple iMac G5 power supply units. The low voltage side of PSU has bulging, leaking, and exploding capacitors. Extremly bad, low quality, short life capacitors were Installed in the iMac Power Supplies. This Image is of the electronic components and the printed circuit board removed from the main power supply assembly. See more information at http://jimwarholic.com/2008/11/apple-imac-g5-power-supply-issues-and.php

Apple iMac G5 Power Supply for 17 inch model. Showing blown capacitors. More information at www.jimwarholic.com

Here's what you get inside the Apple iMac G5 computer. CD/DVD in the upper left, two fans in the to center, hard drive top right, two memory slots available for up to 2 GB of two 1 GB DDR PC 3200 memory sticks, power supply in the lower section, and the mother board in the middle. Learn how to fix your iMac at http://www.jimwarholic.com

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Apple iMac G5 Motherboard capacitors replaced. This shows the locations of the new capacitors installed. Note: Height and Diameter of new capacitors are slightly bigger than the originals. Upgraded to 1,800 uf 10 volts from the original 1,800 uf 6.3 volts. Cover still clears. Important notes are as follows. It appears as though lead free solder was used and a polymer was coated on the assembled motherboard on the bottom. Hot hot soldering iron is required. Doing it yourself is not for the faint at heart.

This is a close up view of the Apple iMac G5 Motherboard with the bulging, leaking, and exploding capacitors problem. This motherboard is three years and two months old. The symptoms of the problem were: video shaking, video disappearing, video lockup, system lockup, intermittently could not power down, intermittently powering up problems, and strange program lockups.