Imac Motherboard, got to change Options

[eaks]

Hi everybody, I recently had problems with my Imac G3 DvSe and got it checked. It happens to be the logicboard... They tell me its worth $350 CAD only for the board... The thing is that I need this oldie as well to work. Do you guys think I'll pay too much for the repair. I checked on ebay to see if there would be equivalent boards to sell and theres no. Also, I guess its touchy to change it all by myself...

I need advices pls. Did someone ever had a similar problem. Would I be better off buyin a similar used one...it could break the same way in not much time...
shall i go new, or used...

tx.

[minskybabs]

In the UK there is a manual produced by a company called Haynes that tells you how to do various things to MACs, like upgrade processors, change hard drives memory, add airport etc. It may be useful, or this may be beyond the scope of the book. It is fairly major having to try and do stuff like that...

Maybe you could try getting the stuff off your hard drive, or removing your hard drive and installing it in a second hand MAC tower? They appear to be really cheap in UK for old G4 quicksilver etc. Not as good looking as the last generation of Imacs I know, but possibly more powerful, or as other posters say, a MAC mini?

Need to be careful you don't waste good money on trying to fix old machine...

HTH Jake.