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			Stuart Smith

>You haven't had Stefan Burt working with you recently have you?, he's always
>melting Mac power supplies, just with his presence!!

I'm afraid my powers of melting things are only confined the Bristol area ;)

James Closs

>Bizarrely I've discovered someone just down the road from me who's
>coming to pick up the dead G5 up tonight.... reckons its probably the
>power supply (apparently a bit of an issue on these models).

If you haven't done so already it's worth checking out apples support
forum as users are pretty good at flagging up faulty kit. Other than
that macosxhints.com is another good place to visit good for unix and
apple stuff too and people might know if it's a common fault.

But either way I hope you get a cheap solution to you problem, broken kit sucks

Stefan

On 10/3/06, Dave Hodgkinson <davehodg at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 3 Oct 2006, at 14:12, James Closs wrote:
>
> >> Look, someone asked for a recommendation and got a reference to
> >> somewhere the referer has no experience of and who, in previous
> >> threads on this very topic, have been roundly criticised for being
> >> a bit rubbish at best and downright crap at worst.
> >
> > Thanks - actually this was just the sort of info I was looking for.
> > I was aware of Fairpoint's existence but wasn't sure whether they'd
> > be any use or not. Sounds like I'd best avoid.
> >
> > Bizarrely I've discovered someone just down the road from me who's
> > coming to pick up the dead G5 up tonight.... reckons its probably
> > the power supply (apparently a bit of an issue on these models).
> >
> > http://www.sweet-apple.co.uk/index.htm
>
> And this was the best nugget of info on this thread was the most useful!
> FFS don't let him get on the BABMUG or [_] or he'll be so in demand
> we won't be able to keep him to ourselves!
>
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