Possible short somewhere

Banny

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Right I know this is an Apple Imac problem, but thought I might get a better answer here.
First of all the problem was blown capacitors on the board.
I changed them all and the board booted up fine before I bolted it down.
I screwed it all in, powered up, heard a sort of low popping sound and now it wont power on, only one LED lights up.
Right heres what I need help with.
After taking it out, I see that my wife had not cut the leads off short enough so maybe one or more of the caps had touched the metal casing that the board sits on.
So would it be a case of possbily changine all the caps agains and hoping or worst case scenario have I killed the board completly.
 
Hard to say from that post. If the system earthed itself via a capacitor on the board it may well be dead now. I'm guessing the caps all look alright, can you test them without removing them?

I'm in shock that your wife had anything to do with this. Not convinced my lady could identify a soldering iron, let alone mount a capacitor to a motherboard.
 
my wife is pretty smart, I have a rework machine and she can use that. she just made the mistake of not cutting the ends off enough. Still we live and learn.
Will put some new Caps on though
 
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