Thanks, Rob, that's a very useful story; I'll pass it to my son. I'm
glad that yours survived the inundation :-)
Chris
On 21 Feb 2008, at 22:52, r.burnette@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Needless to say, in spite of drying the case and components
> (including 5Gb of memory and two 250 Gb hard drives) as well as I
> could, the next time I tried to boot up my computer the monitor view
> went pixel crazy and the computer shut down. My heart sank. I dried
> off some component condensation. Then I placed the G5 on a low
> stool, left the case side off, placed a small fan where it would
> blow into the case and left it overnight. The next day I tried to
> boot up again. To my immense relief, the computer showed, and still
> shows, no ill effects of any kind. I put it to "sleep," but it stays
> on 24/7. The moral of this story? The G5 is one tough computer, both
> case and components.
>
> In view of that and the buyer's insistence that there was no visible
> damage to the shipping carton, I suspect that the buyer had a mishap
> with the computer after it was removed from the carton and he had
> used it for some time. He possibly dropped it himself.
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