Hello,
I recently purchased an eMac on ebay that was listed as "in great working condition", but when it arrived it was in fact not working properly. The computer itself seems to work fine but the display is completely distorted, shifting and flickering constantly so with half the picture off the bottom. From my understanding, the capacitors in these eMacs can often be a problem, but I'm wondering if anyone has any information on which components in particular might be at fault here. I haven't been able to locate any schematics or specific information about the anolog board in this machine. I'm hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction with this repair.
Here's a clip of what it's doing:
The main question of course is whether this is something that is reasonable enough to fix, or if I should just return the computer. I'd rather not ship it again if I can avoid it, but if fixing it will prove more trouble than it's worth I may have to. I'm comfortable enough working around the CRT but without any details about the electronics and what specifically might contribute to this problem, I don't really know where to start.
This eMac is a 1.25 GHz model with 256 MB of RAM.
I'd appreciate any help trying to solve this.
I recently purchased an eMac on ebay that was listed as "in great working condition", but when it arrived it was in fact not working properly. The computer itself seems to work fine but the display is completely distorted, shifting and flickering constantly so with half the picture off the bottom. From my understanding, the capacitors in these eMacs can often be a problem, but I'm wondering if anyone has any information on which components in particular might be at fault here. I haven't been able to locate any schematics or specific information about the anolog board in this machine. I'm hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction with this repair.
Here's a clip of what it's doing:
The main question of course is whether this is something that is reasonable enough to fix, or if I should just return the computer. I'd rather not ship it again if I can avoid it, but if fixing it will prove more trouble than it's worth I may have to. I'm comfortable enough working around the CRT but without any details about the electronics and what specifically might contribute to this problem, I don't really know where to start.
This eMac is a 1.25 GHz model with 256 MB of RAM.
I'd appreciate any help trying to solve this.