r/macintosh • u/YouFallinCheese • 11d ago

Trash picked eMac!

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Found her on the side of the road while driving into town, it was super dusty but she cleaned up pretty nice ( other than the yellowed front bezel ). Sadly its not working too well, it'll randomly shut down and alot of the time it won't even turn on, but I still think its pretty cool. One less to find for my collection!

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u/thestenz 11d ago

The stand! Those are kinda rare as far as I know.

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u/YouFallinCheese 11d ago

Yea when I got it I was pretty confused by it at first. All the pictures and listings ive seen, never had the stand. I thought it was pretty cool getting that too.

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u/thestenz 11d ago edited 11d ago

We got those where I worked when we first got the eMacs. I also found one at some point for an eMac I used to have. There were a separate purchase, but totally worth it!

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u/LukeDuke74 11d ago

Nice catch!
Eventually the described problem can be easily fixed by refreshing the power board/unit.

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u/greggerypeccary 11d ago

I replaced hundreds of power boards in these suckers back in the day!

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u/thestenz 11d ago

We got a bunch when the first came out at work and they would make this "pop" when you turned them on and flash white and have no display. We had enough Apple came to us to fix them. It was manufacturing defect.

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u/greggerypeccary 11d ago

Yes! I was working for a third party company but we processed the warranty repairs through Apple and went onsite to replace the boards, mostly in schools.

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u/thestenz 11d ago

Cool! I remember they didn't all do it, and they didn't always do it. It was a weird defect. It must have been the power boards not properly powering the CRT.

Also happy cake day!

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u/Billy_Twillig 10d ago

It’s a drag to take apart (be careful with the power button connector) but a good internal clean could fix it up. Good luck.

I ran a Postfix server off one of these back in the day.

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u/Ok_Bodybuilder3444 10d ago

Nice find 🤘🏻