1 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,400 Alright, I'm gonna hit the pause button right there, 2 00:11:02,500 --> 00:11:07,300 because this is where things just get from bad to quirky. 3 00:11:07,500 --> 00:11:09,700 But we maybe found some stuff out. 4 00:11:09,900 --> 00:11:14,800 I took some time to contact my buddies at Mac Yak, these guys are way smarter than me. 5 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:23,200 I was talking with Greg, the host of the Mac Yak show and Jay, primarily, Jay asks me what model PowerMac is it. 6 00:11:23,300 --> 00:11:25,300 And to be honest, I had no idea. 7 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,000 I didn't boot it up, I didn't look at the system profiler, nothing. 8 00:11:28,100 --> 00:11:31,300 So, I went back to the photos that the donor sent me. 9 00:11:31,900 --> 00:11:34,400 These photos show that the computer was working just fine, 10 00:11:34,500 --> 00:11:37,300 but I go to the system information and I tell that to Jay. 11 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:41,300 He says, "Oh, you have a liquid-cooled one," 12 00:11:41,900 --> 00:11:42,300 And, 13 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:44,500 I had to change my pants. 14 00:11:44,700 --> 00:11:48,900 I had no idea that this was a liquid-cooled system. 15 00:11:49,100 --> 00:11:55,900 The joke I made earlier about the reactors inside this computer, I was actually not very far off. 16 00:11:56,660 --> 00:12:00,840 What we're dealing with is kind of similar, you know, radioactivity and everything else aside. 17 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,500 So Jay gives me basic instructions on how to access the pumps. 18 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:08,500 I take off the covers and boom... Lo and behold, there are pumps. 19 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,100 There's pipes, there's coolant. 20 00:12:12,300 --> 00:12:13,600 There's coolant. 21 00:12:14,100 --> 00:12:17,660 Yeah, there's coolant where there shouldn't be coolant. 22 00:12:17,660 --> 00:12:23,360 Something is dripping, something is leaking, and thanks to Apple's amazing engineering, 23 00:12:23,300 --> 00:12:26,900 the power supply is located right below where the liquid is. 24 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:28,600 Why? I don't know. 25 00:12:28,700 --> 00:12:29,900 (sound effect) 26 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:31,800 Upon this discovery, I was surprised. 27 00:12:31,900 --> 00:12:36,100 And I was thinking "Well, this liquid might be non-conductive, right? 28 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,100 I mean, that's not super uncommon," 29 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:38,240 WRONG! 30 00:12:38,900 --> 00:12:41,000 Yeah, apparently wrong. I didn't know any better. 31 00:12:41,100 --> 00:12:43,000 Greg Hrutckay from HrutckayMods, 32 00:12:43,100 --> 00:12:45,100 he's also on the Mac Yak show, by the way, 33 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:47,700 reminded me of something really important. 34 00:12:47,900 --> 00:12:54,900 This was one of the first, if not, the first commercially available personal computers to ship with liquid cooling built-in. 35 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,100 So I guess that means, not all the kinks were worked out. 36 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,900 The coolant in this thing is GM Dex-Cool. 37 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,800 This stuff is corrosive and conductive, 38 00:13:05,170 --> 00:13:13,140 so if it did leak out, which it looks like it did, and got into the power supply, that is what caused the short. 39 00:13:13,140 --> 00:13:15,960 Another theory was that I blew a cap. 40 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:16,680 Possibly. 41 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:19,300 Again, I'm not an electrical guy, I'm not really too into that, 42 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:22,900 but I think I would have smelled that if a capacitor exploded. 43 00:13:23,500 --> 00:13:24,900 I didn't smell anything. 44 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,200 The sound I heard was an arc. 45 00:13:28,300 --> 00:13:36,500 I didn't mention this earlier, but there was a flash. I could see a flash in the power inlet right when the flash happened is when I heard the sound. 46 00:13:36,410 --> 00:13:41,910 So that popping noise was an electrical arc, not a capacitor blowing. 47 00:13:41,910 --> 00:13:43,320 So I think we can put that theory aside. 48 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:46,220 So now, we're dealing with this. There's liquid. 49 00:13:46,220 --> 00:13:49,770 Jay wanted to make sure it actually was... coolant liquid. 50 00:13:49,180 --> 00:13:54,310 I dab some up and the properties resembled that of coolant, 51 00:13:55,000 --> 00:14:02,200 not of typical water where it would just dissolve up pretty easily into a napkin and evaporate on the surface of metal pretty quickly. 52 00:14:02,500 --> 00:14:06,300 It's... it's remaining there, it's like smearing kinda and it felt kind of oily. 53 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:12,000 I noticed there was some liquid, even on the foot of the computer and it felt oily, it did not feel like water. 54 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:16,900 But to add to the complexity, 'cause this wasn't already (beep) up enough, 55 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:22,400 I go back to my emails from the donor and recall that this thing was in a water sprinkler accident. 56 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,300 What the shit? Seriously. 57 00:14:25,170 --> 00:14:28,450 So, now that was mixed into the equation. 58 00:14:28,450 --> 00:14:33,320 But thankfully, I think it's fair to say, we 59 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:37,320 can quickly remove that from the equation, judging by the fact that the donor sent me photos of the computer working. 60 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:41,710 So whatever incident it was in earlier, that issue must have been rectified. 61 00:14:41,710 --> 00:14:49,720 This liquid is not water from the sprinkler incident or from poor storage or any of that stuff, it is from the cooling system. 62 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:56,990 So now we're stuck with the power supply that likely has liquid in it, so the computer is inoperable. 63 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:57,000 Could it be fixed? 64 00:14:57,100 --> 00:14:57,800 Potentially, yes. 65 00:14:57,900 --> 00:15:02,800 The power supplies of these things are kind of a bitch to remove and I don't want to futz with it, 66 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,300 nor do I want to ship this out to get it repaired because, 67 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:07,300 one: it's expensive, 68 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,800 but two: it's probably gonna get damaged even worse. 69 00:15:09,900 --> 00:15:12,400 Even if it got fixed, it would still have to be shipped back. 70 00:15:12,500 --> 00:15:14,900 My theory is, during the shipping, 71 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,000 even though this thing was packed brilliantly, 72 00:15:17,100 --> 00:15:20,200 it still got jostled around and there was a leak. 73 00:15:20,300 --> 00:15:21,800 I'm open to suggestions. 74 00:15:22,100 --> 00:15:28,300 I'm open to ideas of where I can maybe find someone to fix this locally, 75 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,200 but to be honest, I don't know if it's worth the hassle right now. 76 00:15:31,340 --> 00:15:32,800 So that was my discovery. 77 00:15:32,540 --> 00:15:34,440 Thank you, Mac Yak guys for helping me through this. 78 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:39,500 Oh yeah, and there was this warning that I totally missed the first time on the inside that says, 79 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:43,000 "If you see liquid, you know, turn off the computer, yada yada yada," 80 00:15:43,100 --> 00:15:45,500 Yeah, I, yeah, I didn't see that before. 81 00:15:45,870 --> 00:15:47,380 I don't know, maybe it was covered up by something. 82 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:48,700 Huh, got a read. 83 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,000 Let's get back to the tech video blog.