Looking for electronic diagram of the power unit in a TAM

Hi,
My TAM is currently being repaired but the problem is that the technician needs the electronic circuit diagram for the power unit in order to know what the part type he needs to replace.
Does anyone know where can I get this diagram?
Thanks,
Tal

I don't think you'll be able to find such a detailed spec sheet for the power supply, because faulty ones were generally replaced as a unit and not bench-repaired. Does the repair tech primarily work on PCs and have little experience with older Macs? Quite often, non-Mac techs jump to the conclusion that the power supply is bad, when the unit fails to power ON. What problems is your TAM having? In many cases, the internal (non-recharging) battery that preserves the settings stored in PRAM is at fault. Was the unit unplugged from electricity for a long time? If so, the battery lost its charge and probably needs replacing. The TAM uses a 4.5-volt alkaline (Rayovac 870, 871, or equivalent) battery, that's a black plastic cube with two wire leads and is secured to the motherboard with velcro. Additionally, the TAM motherboard plugs into a long main connector slot that can become oxidized over time. The connection between the motherboard's gold-plated pins and the slot can become compromised, and it doesn't take a lot of oxidization to affect it. Removing the motherboard and cleaning the upper and lower sides of those pins along the edge with a soft whiter eraser can solve a number of problems.

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More Guru Winners for February 2015 in the Power Pivot category and many others!

It's been a busy week that also saw the
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http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/03/19/technet-guru-february-2015.aspx
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Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however the full version is available on TechNet Wiki in the link above.
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BizTalk Technical Guru - February 2015
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Mandi Ohlinger: "Always a fan of helping our custom pipeline users. Great addition to this group."
Sandro Pereira: "Images, format, descriptions, code and topic are excellent once again good work Steef-Jan."
Vignesh Sukumar
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Sandro Pereira: "Great job on this article! Well explained and nice pictures, however the article format need to be improved and some proofreading is need"
Mandi Ohlinger: "Welcome to the 'I heart BAM' fan club. Nice job on this topic. A MUST read for new-to-BAM users. "
Steef-Jan Wiggers
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Sandro Pereira: "Images, format, descriptions, code and topic are excellent once again good work Steef-Jan."
Mandi Ohlinger: "ETW for BAM Activities - LOVE it. Nice use of the Framework. "
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - February 2015
Wim Beck
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PG: "Simple, targeted but nice article, nice layout. "
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice. Would be perfect with a complete code sample."
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - February 2015
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JH: "Log files are one of the most important things in a production environment. This article shows hows you can do that for the Azure Mobile Services in a nice and easy way."
Alan Carlos: "Great article!"
Ed Price: "Very useful topic! These are a great set of articles!"
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Azure Mobile Services: How to see the WebConfig file published
Ed Price: "Great detail and fantastic use of images! I love all the in-line links!"
JH: "Sometimes it is hard to tell when working in a multi-environment what configuration was published to the Server. The article shows short and easy how to do that for the Azure Mobile Services."
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - February 2015
Arleta Wanat
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Durval Ramos: "This article has a well content, images and code that help to understand the solution. It has References and was Translated into more two languages. Good job!"
Richard Mueller: "Good links. A great tutorial."
Andy ONeill
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Durval Ramos: "A well formatted article is easier and more pleasant to read. This script is useful"
Richard Mueller: "Good demonstration of a new feature."
Chen V
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Durval Ramos: " A good solution originated of TechNet Forum. The script and images make it easy to understand and ensure you get the best interest to reader."
Richard Mueller: "Good documentation of this feature."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - February 2015
Geetanjali Arora
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KB: "Very well explained article on a new and much awaited feature. Although Andrew Connell already explained this topic in several posts, this article still contains added value."
Ed Price: "I love the History section. The formatting is amazing. And the References and See Also sections at the bottom are great icing on the cake. This is an important topic that's done incredibly well!"
Matthew Yarlett
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KB: "I read this article with growing interest, it contains a lot of added value. Very well and in-depth explanation. "
Ed Price: "Great scenario! Good use of images, code, detail, and References! Could possibly use a greater breakdown and explanation of the code. This article just gets more and more interesting and valuable as you read it! Great job!"
Arleta Wanat
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KB: "Really nice, interesting and detailed article!"
Ed Price: "The Content Types section helps explain this a lot! I also love the downloads at the end. What a fantastic resource!"
Small Basic Technical Guru - February 2015
Nonki Takahashi
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Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great improvement."
RZ: "Very nice explanation and examples of key input handling"
Ed Price - MSFT
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RZ: "Turtle (Logo) was the first programming language for many, including perhaps some of the Small Basic prorammers. Nice article explaining the history."
Michiel Van Hoorn: "A nice background article and hopefull inspiration for those who want to start in robotics"
Nonki Takahashi
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Michiel Van Hoorn: "This is great! Perfect as a local cache of the articles. "
RZ: "A good example"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - February 2015
Sylvain PONTOREAU
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RB: "Great walkthrough. Looking forward for the WP8 version of the app ;)"
PT: "Sylvain, very nice job with this. This is a timely topic about an emerging product that has great potential. This is a very good example of a well-written post on an interesting subject with enough information to be valuable to a
solution developer. I will personally take time to explore the Power BI API and use your examples. "
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - February 2015
Ronen Ariely
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AM: "Thank you for sharing this with us. It is quite informative and let us get familiar with BOL after the change from previous versins."
Ed Price: "Nice! A very helpful introduction to Books Online! It also tells my technical writer friends that their hard work is appreciated! =^)"
Durval Ramos
How to Collect Events and Errors on SQL Server
Ed Price: "Fantastic solution! A great resource that's amazingly well written with formatting, clear parameters, images, References, and a See Also section! And it even comes in Portuguese! Great article!"
AM: "Thank you for sharing this with us. A good source to learn about our SQL Server instances. "
System Center Technical Guru - February 2015
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Ed Price: "An important topic that's very clear with great formatting and a good use of an image!"
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Ed Price: "I love the descriptions, breakdown of sections, and code formatting! Great article!"
Mr X
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Ed Price: "A very helpful table and a good contribution to the community! Mr X again thinks of important content gaps to fill!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - February 2015
Saeid Hasani
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Durval Ramos: "Very well structured and with examples that clarify how a T-SQL statement can change the data output order."
Richard Mueller: "Good use of Wiki guidelines and great examples."
Ronen Ariely
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Richard Mueller: "An excellent collection and a great idea."
Durval Ramos: "A good initiative. Very useful !!!"
Ricardo Lacerda
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Durval Ramos: "The "Window function" sample was well presented, but it was unclear how the chart was generated."
Richard Mueller: "A new idea that can be very useful. Grammar needs work"
Visual Basic Technical Guru - February 2015
Emiliano Musso
Genetic algorithm to solve 2D Mazes in Visual Basic
MR: "Great article! Love to see an application for AI in a simple game"
Durval Ramos: "This article is well documented with images and your code clarifying important details. It also has References, a very useful video and your project available for download in "MSDN Code" !"
Richard Mueller: "Incredible concept and code. Grammar needs work."
Paul Ishak
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Durval Ramos: "Very interesting article, with methods and properties well documented. Your project was available in "MSDN Code" which facilitates the understanding of solution."
Richard Mueller: "Amazing work. Extensive code but with lots of comments. Needs a TOC"
tommytwotrain
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MR: "Great continuation. Love the usage of the code for circle text"
Durval Ramos: "The article is interesting, but It's need to work better commenting about assemblies referenced on project and also structure your content into sections."
Richard Mueller: "Good tutorial and example code demonstrating basic concepts. Avoid first person."
Visual C# Technical Guru - February 2015
Magnus (MM8)
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Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has a thorough and to the point explanation of problem and the solution with code samples. Loved it!"
Carmelo La Monica: "Very useful and exhaustive about errors at runtime in these circumstances. Congratulations"
Andy ONeill
c#: Practical Poly
Carmelo La Monica: "Fantastic artcle. Very detailed and exhaustive, congratulations ."
Jaliya Udagedara: "Definitely worth reading this. Explains somewhat advance topic along with a fundamental concept of programming. "
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - February 2015
Durval Ramos
Wiki: Microsoft Short URLs Personalized by SXP
PG: "Nice idea, lots of potential to grow, really needs some more community attention."
Richard Mueller: "An excellent idea. Good use of Wiki guidelines."
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - February 2015
Carmelo La Monica
Windows Phone 8: control Nokia Maps (Part 3)
JH: "Part 3 of the series how to work with the Nokia maps control. As the previous articles this one contains a lot of code snippets and some pictures. Good work!"
Ed Price: "A great topic, a fantastic breakdown of sections with clear descriptions, and a nice mix of code formatting and helpful images! Another stellar article from Carmelo! Great job including the link back at the end to the portal
article!"
Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - February 2015
Richard Mueller
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Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article, congratulations!!! Very detailed!"
Chen V: "Excellent Article - I liked return to top as well."
Ed Price: "Wow! It's like a professional whitepaper! It's a valuable topic that's done with intricate detail! I love the images, diagrams, code blocks, and it ends very well with more resources and Wiki articles! The article just keeps
digging deeper and deeper! Awesome job on this!"
DexterPOSH
PowerShell + REST API : Invoke-RestMethod Gotcha
Chen V: "Good Article. TOC might have made this more rich! "
Ed Price: "This is a good topic with some great content. It could benefit from sections and a TOC, as well as a References and See Also sections at the end. The inline links are helpful. Could "
DexterPOSH
PowerShell Trick : Search & highlight text in MS Word
Ed Price: "This is a great solution, with some helpful Q&A in the comments!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - February 2015
Andy ONeill
Lookless Controls
KJ: "WPF can definitely be confusing when devs first encounter it. Like the way you break it down."
Ed Price: "Wow! Fantastic explanations that are very clear and deep! The images and code bring it to life!"
Andy ONeill
Only One Parent
KJ: "Same iwith this one, good 101 intro"
Ed Price: "Another great tip! I love the detail here as well! Those snippets help a lot!"
Andy ONeill
Bind to Current Item of Collection
KJ: "Feel like this topic has a lot of coverage out there, but it can't hurt to hammer on databinding yet one more time :) "
Ed Price: "Fantastic topic with great execution! Although these could benefit from References and See Also wiki sections at the end, the Inline links help a lot!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - February 2015
Mr X
Ping for Beginners
Mark Parris: "A good introduction with additional content."
JM: "Great article idea and an excellent article that will be useful to many, thanks for your contribution."
Philippe Levesque: "Good article that show a usefull utility for basic troubleshooting"
Richard Mueller
Active Directory: Get-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy Default and Extended Properties
Mark Parris: "An Interesting insight on FGPP and their extended properties."
JM: "This is a good piece of detailed information about this PowerShell cmdlet, thanks for sharing."
Philippe Levesque: "Great article ! Illustrating some cmdlet's output when a user got assigned policy versus a user with the default domain policy could be a good idea."
Richard Mueller
Active Directory: Get-ADServiceAccount Default and Extended Properties
Mark Parris: "A useful nugget of information."
JM: "More very useful information about an AD cmdlet, thanks!"
Philippe Levesque: "Good article !"
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SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - February 2015
Sylvain PONTOREAU
PowerBI API in .Net
RB: "Great walkthrough. Looking forward for the WP8 version of the app ;)"
PT: "Sylvain, very nice job with this. This is a timely topic about an emerging product that has great potential. This is a very good example of a well-written post on an interesting subject with enough information to be valuable to a
solution developer. I will personally take time to explore the Power BI API and use your examples. "
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In looking at Video cards, Like the PNY Quadro 600 ($150.00) requires a PCi-E 2.0x16, which I have now, but the higher end cards like the PNY Quadro 2000, ($400.00) and others, reqiuire a PCI-E 3.0x16.
WISHY WASHY~ Don't know if i should wait to get a new mobo, before I buy a new card, becuz it's going to be a while. I don't want to buy the Q600 DDR3 now, to be obsolete and a non-performer compared to the Q2000 DDR5, which would be more faster, then I wonder, i7, more DDR3 memory, and a new Mobo, then use a slower DDR3? Ummmmmm.
To be honest, I like MSI, I bought my new MSI Platinum five years ago, and love it! I'd like to keep it if i could, but technology supercedes practicallity, with the newer atx case with front USB 3.0 (mine is only 2.0....if it's backward compatible, then fine.) I'd like to ahead of the game, but not if i'm going to go BROKE!
With my old build, with the mobo, Intel Quad Q6600,700W Toughpower PSU, memory,hard drives, That set me back about $1200.00.
So..... for someone like me who is not a gamer, does not overclock, wants a minimum of 32GB DDR3, 700W PSU, three SATAII hard drives, does anyone have some Mainboard choices of newer LGA 1155 or 2011 that would either of these work?
This time, I'll need the i7 (or i5) new mobo, new DDR3 memory...up to minimum 16GB, maybe 32GB, and that's that. I'll use what I can,. or give or sell this tower and everything inside to my sister.
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Z77A-G43 DDR3 1600 LGA 1155 ($ 97.00) OR
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Thermaltake "TOUGHPOWER" 700W ATX 12V - 2.2 & EPS 12V
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MSI P35 Platinum/Intel P35 Chipset Crossfire 1395 (MS-7345)
POWER SUPPLY ~
Thermaltake "TOUGHPOWER" 700W ATX 12V - 2.2 & EPS 12V
CPU ~
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40GHz (4 cpu's)
DISPLAY ~
EVGA Nvidia Geforce 8600GT (512MB) DDR2 128-Bit
(Memory clock speed 700MHz / HDCP Capable PCI-e / Total memory 4071MB (Driver version 8.17.12.9610) 2-29-12 DirectX11
MONITOR ~ 20" Viewsonic - VX2035WN
60Hz ( Screen Res. 1280 x 800) True Color (32 Bit)
HARD DRIVES ~
Boot drive > WD SATAII - 74GB Raptor (10,000 rpms) 16MB > 4.6MS
Storage drive > WD SATAII - 2TB Green (7200 rpms)
Storage drive > WD SATAII - 500GB Caviar Blue (7200 rpms)
External drive > Seagate 3TB
OPERATING SYSTEM ~
Windows 7 Pro OEM (64 Bit) (6.1, Build 7601) SP1
BIOS ~
American Megatrends Inc. v.1.10 / 11/10/08
Current Bios version - 1.A0 / VGA Bios v. 60.84.41.00.06
MEMORY ~
8GB DDR2 / PC6400 / 800MHz (8192 MB) RAM
Available Physical memory - 6.12GB
Paging file > 4463MB Used, 11917MB Available
AUDIO ~
Realtek High Definition Onboard Audio
CASE ~ Coolermaster CM 690 / ATX

If you already looked at X79A-GD65 (8D) and you are going for 16GB ram minimum or 32GB a Socket 2011 Core i7 would be a good choice. If you are just looking for an easy to setup system a X79A-GD45-8D would be of the same socket without any flaws but still somewhat less expensive.

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