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Motherboard Bad

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renovatio07gsxr

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My motherboard went out on me on my G3 iBook. The shop quoted me at $400 plus to fix. Is this true? Can I fix it myself or at least buy a motherboard and have them fix it. They are saying its $300+ for the board and $100 for the labor. Any ideas?
 
Doesn't sound that far fetched. Apple logic boards are expensive and paying for professional labour is always expensive.
 
Look for a replacement logic board on eBay or somewhere like iFixIt. You are really going to be better in the long run putting that towards 50% (or more) of a new MacBook though...
 
renovatio07gsxr said:
Is there a alternative?



Yeah if its that much to fix it yeah.
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The components and labor do truly cost that much. I strongly suggest that you don't try to replace the logicboard yourself either unless you're extremely comfortable working with small electronics. Even I won't touch the internals of an iBook.
 
Ok what about all my itunes and some of the other stuff how do I go about getting that off and putting it on another computer?
 
renovatio07gsxr said:
Ok what about all my itunes and some of the other stuff how do I go about getting that off and putting it on another computer?
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Well, you'll either need a working computer or pull the harddrive and attach it to another machine. Of course you should have backups, replying on the disk not dying is a really bad plan.
 
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