eMac 1.25 that needs capacitor repair

[Cory5412]

Hey all, Got this a bit over a week ago, but I finally got around to posting about it.

I picked up an eMac that needs the capacitor repair for $10 at my university's surplus shop. It's in 1.25/512/80/combo configuration, and has a modem, but it looks like it does not have an Airport or bluetooth card.

I'm thinking of getting a 1.42 board for it off of eBay, there's every indication in the service manual that it'll work just fine, and if I can pick one up for about $50-100, I'll have only sunk about a hundred dollars into a moderately fast G4 system that I can use for whatever as a second computer, or that I can give to a friend who might need or want a mac or a desktop system

 

[benjgvps]

1. Buy eMac

2. Buy Replacement Logic Board

3. Assemble

4. Sell to friend

5. ????

6. Profit!

It fit in well. Nice score.

 

[Mike Richardson]

Apple will still fix these eMacs, if you talk to the right person. They apparently still have tons of motherboards sitting around. I have had 4 repaired for free that I got for cheap from school auctions. I am typing this on a 1.42 GHz eMac. It's a great little Mac.

 

[Cory5412]

Yeah, I can't really take it directly to Apple, but our bookstore here is an Apple-Authorized service center. The program is expired though, so I'm trying to decide whether or not I'll be hauling it all the way up there, depending on if I can done that I may put the thing in storage for a little bit too, because I have to move soon.