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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: logic board problems
Keywords: mac logic board replacement repair floppy
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.191747.20950@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 90 19:17:47 GMT
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In article <1990Nov13.122103.22119@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> gordo@dgp.toronto.edu (Gordon Kurtenbach) writes:
>
>1) Is replacing the logic board the only way to fix this (this 
>costs > $500!!)? I get the feeling they'll sell me a new board, take
>the old one, replace the sick chip and sell it to the next poor soul.

Probably not-- there are places advertised in MacWorld, Macweek, et al, which
will do component level repairs.  (my guess would be that the 'sick chip'
is the IWM, which may still cost  a bit because it as an apple-proprietary
chip, but not $500!)

>2) If I do have to take the $500 hit can I upgrade to a faster board?

No, but if you take a ~$3000 hit, you can :-)

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