I picked up a dell inspiron 1526 locally to tinker with and it seems to power on somewhat but the leds are not correct and...

I picked up this powermac from a recycler with no ram - harddrive - or optical drive. The plexi airsheild was missing so i...

i have an unresponsive intel imac and i was wondering if there is a way to "jump start " the power supply so that i can...

I gave up - after much part swapping I came to the conclusion that it is a logic board issue. I have seen several phone with this problem.

The DVD drive is connected via IDE and the harddrive via sata just like it came. I had to use a dual IDE cable from a pc because the mac one was missing. I know the newer IDE cables are different than really old ones and thought that could possibly be an issue