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Yesterday, I acquired something that I did not expect to find. I've become increasingly fond of the click wheel based iPods as of lately, having spent considerable time dissecting and repairing iPod minis and attempting to find a decent 4th Gen iPod to use as my primary music player after...

I work for an Apple Reseller as a service technician, but I also perform some showroom duties.

Installed an additional 512MB DDR module today for a total of 1GB and installed Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11. Was using it for all my showroom duties at work today, still an excellent "little" workhorse machine. Very pleased! :D

Seems my thread titles are only getting weirder. This machine is a resurrected old portable powerhouse with a massive windshield and chrome accents. It was in a pretty poor state of disrepair when I found it, but it was complete, the removed screws all bagged with the machine and all mounting...

The initial problem is exactly the same as the current problem. I don't suspect that the GeForce 8600M GT was ever bad in fact, but considering how common the graphics issue is with these models and the number of ways in which a GPU problem can manifest itself, I performed the BGA reflow to rule...

You could be an absolute legend here techknight - I don't even have to go far to source the MOSFETs. I have a donor logic board at work that does power up, but has a bad SMC. I'll begin probing into that over the weekend. Hopefully will find some positive results. :D Presumably something...

It's not the GeForce BGA. I reworked it last night. No change in behaviour. All of those machines you listed are certainly capable of moving some serious air, I wouldn't really be prepared to say cooling fans are the problem. Perhaps the layout of the heatpipe or the fact that these integrated...

I've done everything to this machine. Had the logic board out, tried another Left I/O board, been probing around and looking under magnifying glasses for obvious shorts or damaged traces... absolute nada. Battery is good. Power adapter is the same one I use to test 20 or so machines a day on the...

It seems that every machine I liberate ends up dead. I had my Power Mac G5 with its ultra-warpy board. I had my PowerBook G3 Pismo. Now I have a MacBook Pro (Early 2008 15-inch) that I acquired from my previous employer. 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB Memory, 512MB GeForce 8600M-GT, 15-inch Glossy...

Quite the contrary, I actually prefer the G4 QuickSilver case. The G4 QS case I had previously though was in poor shape, cracking around the handles and side plastics, and the back had been cut slightly to allow fitment of an ATX power supply. The Digital Audio case on the other hand was near...

Picked up a few little gems from a regular client of ours at work who had some of the remaining Apple hardware from a now defunct Apple Reseller. I didn't know what I was getting until it arrived, but I wasn't disappointed by any means. PowerBook G3 Wallstreet (Series II) 300MHz PowerPC G3...

This time, when I say "Old School", I mean it in the literal sense. Grades 10 and 11 in high school were some of the best times of my life so far, and one of my favourite subjects was Digital Imaging, a course in Photoshop and other image manipulation packages. Today, I acquired the computer I...

I've found other REPs to be identified as Quality Programs within the parts ordering channels, but correct, they aren't always the same. For what it's worth, I believe the Core Duo (Early 2006) MacBooks may actually be considered vintage by now, and the first Core 2 Duos MacBooks (Late 2006)...

Strangely, I just replaced the Top Case on a 2006 MacBook today under the repair extension program without any issue. May be worth looking in to.

Alright... - I noticed the issue with my G5 became much more frequent after removing and reinstalling the memory. In addition, doing so would sometimes temporarily cure the problem. The memory slots are a high flex point and the large IBM IC on the back of the board is quite close to the memory...

Last time I had a G5 intermittently freeze or fail to detect memory, the culprit ended up being an intermittent BGA joint on a large IC (presumably Northbridge/Chipset) on the reverse side of the board. It's below the orange/copper portion of the heatsink in this image: However, my machine...

Late reply, but if i'd known that a firmware update made such a significant difference to the Sawtooth when I was coding LeopardAssist (using mcdermd's trick above as its core), it would have solved many a headache. Will have to note that one down for future reference. There won't be any new...

Looks like mine may have had a transplant. Verified this and you do appear to be correct.

17-inch and 20-inch versions were available with Intel Core Duos right from the start. I have two. Cracked screen 'eh? Sounds like a perfect candidate for a UniMac conversion... I plan to install one of the high resolution displays to my display-less 17-inch Core 2 Duo model when the funds...

The Graphite? Somewhat curious to know what's wrong with it and also possibly the condition of the case plastics (my graphite is in almost perfect shape, but needs a lower case, or just the foot. Still debating whether it's even worth repairing it).