03-25-2006, 04:19 AM
My nephews 18 month old 12" G4/800 iBook has a bad logicboard.
Can the G4/800MHz board be swapped for a G4/1.2 GHz?
Each are 12" iBooks. I have no issues doing it--I have done many repairs on iBooks, and down to the DC board on a 12" PB DVI-which is all the way.
Here are the symptoms-but even the AppleStore Genius agrees on the logicboard, and that is $300. There are incidents of this on the web, but it isn't covered under any extended warranty like the G3 iBooks.
We have tried everything-it hangs withing a few minutes of booting-sometimes no boot other times it works for 3-5 minutes. Same if booted in to an external drive. It will run for hours in Firewire target disk mode, so it isn't the drive.
Any input is appreciated. Thanks-Ken :-)
Can the G4/800MHz board be swapped for a G4/1.2 GHz?
Each are 12" iBooks. I have no issues doing it--I have done many repairs on iBooks, and down to the DC board on a 12" PB DVI-which is all the way.
Here are the symptoms-but even the AppleStore Genius agrees on the logicboard, and that is $300. There are incidents of this on the web, but it isn't covered under any extended warranty like the G3 iBooks.
We have tried everything-it hangs withing a few minutes of booting-sometimes no boot other times it works for 3-5 minutes. Same if booted in to an external drive. It will run for hours in Firewire target disk mode, so it isn't the drive.
Any input is appreciated. Thanks-Ken :-)