Best way to revive an MDD with a dead power supply?

[AL1630]

I just picked up a dual 1.25 MDD for free from a friend who had it sitting in their basement, last used in 2010. I brought it home and tried starting it, but the power button lights up, then dies. Based on some googling, this seems to be a sign of a dead PSU, which seems fairly common on these. I want to get this running somehow, as the case is one of my favorites. Is it best to buy a refurb power supply, have it rebuilt, or mod a PC power supply, which apparently can't power the ADC connector. Is one of these options better than the others? They all seem to have a similar price tag.

 

[Hrududu]

Ive got 2 MDDs and both had flaky/failing PSUs. The dual 1.42 will power on using the ADC display button on a 20-23" display, but not a 17 which I can only assume has to do with the lower power draw of the 17. If you've got an ADC monitor you can use, you might try using its power button. This machine also likes to be plugged in for a while before it'll go on. If it is unplugged for a while, it doesn't come on immediately. The other machine was very bad and would rarely come one. I finally just got a used PSU from eBay.

 

[1042686]

Hmm, I vote for used/NOS power supply. If my MDD psu suddenly failed, well I don’t know any repair ppl in town who’d do it cheap, & Im not going to dick around trying to get an atx psu to work, so a used eBay refirb is the path I’d take.

And a dual 1.25ghz MDD is certainly worth it IMO. Best of luck on the repair.

 

[ctmpkmlec4]

If you search eBay, there is a guy in Texas who offers a power supply repair service for G4 Power Macs.