Power Macintosh G3 won't power up

[vinny]

Tell you this I have never gotten rid of any mac system that I owned, they all have attributes, that are of value. When you say Power supply its not really too clear. Every mac I have is a plug in unit, can you PM me a few photos of the PS, I have systems before your G3 and current ones well afterwards.

More than willing to help if I can.

Greg, THEY said power supply. I have no idea what it looks like or what replacing it entails. Can't be too hard though, this machine is put together like a tank. I need to do some research on it.

[Greg Blank]

They?

Greg, THEY said power supply. I have no idea what it looks like or what replacing it entails. Can't be too hard though, this machine is put together like a tank. I need to do some research on it.

[vinny]

Keith and frank. Read the first couple posts.

[David Sieverding]

Reseat your ram. You might want to reseat everything else too.

[domaz]

Every electronic device with a power supply works like this: power switch on and plugged into a powered socket & device lights up,....mac/pc its all the same....just depends on the design how to read the lighting up

Actually not so simple. With an ATX power supply the power switch is actually on the motherboard. So if you plug in an ATX power supply to a bad motherboard it will not turn on. But a bad power supply with a good motherboard will exhibit the same behavior- won't turn on when you click the power, so some more advanced troubleshooting is in order..

[JohnnyV]

Battery checked out OK.

Most Macs don't use off the shelf ATX power supplies. What model G3 do you have?

[unixrevolution]

I have a Power Mac G3 on my shelf that probably still works. If you want it, It's yours for the cost of postage.