“Coloring outside the lines a bit?”
Admittedly I’m quite often prone to some rather unorthodoxed approaches to “fixing” old G4s - yet I’ve never considered baking any G4 MOBO (yet). Anyone else ever done this?
I have however baked
numerous boards (more than four) out of several fairly-recently manufactured flat panel televisions resulting with 100% working success. Seems that maybe the quality of the soldering on these recent components might not be quite what it should have been… or perhaps now, planned obsolescence could have something to do with it? (At any rate, maybe this says a great deal about the original manufacturing quality of ye olde G4 machines?)
Given my success rate with the television boards… maybe a quick little “EZ bake” of a MOBO might warrant some further investigation? (May be worth a try?) Really doesn’t take all that long to strip out & down a MOBO for baking… and if it works… well, no expense & no waiting for a new MOBO to be delivered. (As long as you don’t jostle something loose after baking / cool down times afterwards, before moving is important.) *I’ve an old Quicksilver MOBO ‘round here that I replaced. When time allows, I might just try baking that old one.
If it doesn’t work… sure, replacement boards are available. But yes… I hope the new battery does take care of the current non-working state. If it does, then what did baking the board really harm?
After all,
Mother IS the necessity of invention…but yup, I might have tried running AHT and a new battery first.
Do keep us all posted.
(I may have a MOBO - if you need one. PM me.)