what to do with a bum iMac G5?

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Hi all,

my mother's G5 imac is slowly dying. It will not wake up from sleep at all (even hard reset won't work). Her local tech people say it is a faulty logic board. (and the cost of replacement wouldn't be worth it)

She can still use it if it never sleeps, which she will do for a while.

Can she buy a mini (or i give her mine) and use the imac monitor? She would rather spend as little as possible.

Cheers, and thanks

[Schtumple]

You can't use the iMac as a monitor sadly, you could take all the data off (put it on DVD or something), wipe the hard drive, and sell it as faulty on ebay, recoup some money that way and put that towards a monitor to go with the mini. :)

[drichards]

She can't use the iMac as a monitor for the Mini. Sorry. :(

[nick9191]

Yeah if you sell the dead iMac on ebay, you can use that money to pick up a cheap TFT. Its amazing what people will pay for a faulty Mac on there.

You could always pick up an iMac G5 logic board, again from ebay and do it yourself. Thats the cheapest option if you know what you are doing.