"the auction said it was running a while ago but he has no way to test it now, i would bid on it."
exactly the same "standard" reply a got when i purchased my first CSPPC.
"yeah! it worked last time i checked!" pity that was 2 ywars before.
Superfluous to say thats mine lasts 2 weeks or so :-( (received with the PPC fan broken, hence....)
Edit- ah obviously i hope for the buyer that is full working but if it isn't and/or it works only sometimes (intermittent boot and so) my suggestion is don't use it in that state, Try to fix it or send it for repair (even if its the 060 socket badly soldered).
Using it in that state, will lands in problems for the PPC as well