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| Click here to select a new forum. | | eMac 1.25 that needs capacitor repair | Posted by: Cory5412 on 2008-12-04 08:10:17
Hey all, Got this a bit over a week ago, but I finally got around to posting about it.
I picked up an eMac that needs the capacitor repair for $10 at my university's surplus shop. It's in 1.25/512/80/combo configuration, and has a modem, but it looks like it does not have an Airport or bluetooth card.
I'm thinking of getting a 1.42 board for it off of eBay, there's every indication in the service manual that it'll work just fine, and if I can pick one up for about $50-100, I'll have only sunk about a hundred dollars into a moderately fast G4 system that I can use for whatever as a second computer, or that I can give to a friend who might need or want a mac or a desktop system
| Posted by: benjgvps on 2008-12-04 15:18:12
1. Buy eMac
2. Buy Replacement Logic Board
3. Assemble
4. Sell to friend
5. ????
6. Profit!
It fit in well. Nice score.
| Posted by: Mike Richardson on 2008-12-04 15:46:36
Apple will still fix these eMacs, if you talk to the right person. They apparently still have tons of motherboards sitting around. I have had 4 repaired for free that I got for cheap from school auctions. I am typing this on a 1.42 GHz eMac. It's a great little Mac.
| Posted by: Cory5412 on 2008-12-04 18:42:15
Yeah, I can't really take it directly to Apple, but our bookstore here is an Apple-Authorized service center. The program is expired though, so I'm trying to decide whether or not I'll be hauling it all the way up there, depending on if I can done that I may put the thing in storage for a little bit too, because I have to move soon.
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