[pajelaandrew]

Hello all,
I have a question about a future decision. I am on the market for a mac desktop. I have come across a Mac Pro for a reasonable price, although it has some issues. The man I am trying to buy it from says that he is 99% sure a power surge caused the capacitor to blow. Would it be the PSU or the Logic Board that is bad?

Well here are the specs:

2X 2.66Ghz Xeon Dual Core Processors
6Gb Ram (2X Apple 512s, 2X 3rd Party 512s, 2X 3rd Party 2Gb DIMMS)
NVidia 7300GT
Superdrive
No BT or WiFi
No Hard Drive

A logic board will put be back 300, a PSU will put me back around 200.

Is this the wifi card that would fit into it?

Sonnet Aria Extreme N - 802.11n Wireless Min... (N80211-EM) at OWC


all help is appreciated:

-Andrew

[jephree]

By "logic board" can I assume you refer to the motherboard?

If so and if any capacitors "blew" you would see noticeable damage.

Capacitors are the like 1/2 inch tall cylinders you see about the board. If any "blew" they would be "leaking" and visibly damaged.

Also if you power up the board with no RAM installed and if it does not BEEP at you it is most likely dead.

On the other hand you can get a PSU tester such as this:

PSU Tester

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FrozenCPU ATX 2.0 Ultimate LCD Power Supply Tester (20/24 pin ATX, SATA, P4, Xeon, PCI-E, Floppy, 4 pin) - FrozenCPU.com

[pajelaandrew]

Thanks for the feedback, think im going to go ahead with the purchase, a mac pro for under 1000 is a great deal in my book.