It's disappointing that after all your time and money spent the 840AV was treated (and posted?) so badly.
Looking at your picture of PCB damage, only one track is broken which should be fairly easy to repair (scrape back some of the copper tracing with a scalpel, and use something like a conductive ink pen to repair the broken track). A pin also comes in handy here to clean up any excess.
My eBay 840AV was bashed around too, but sold as such as it cost me ~ $30 AUD in the end. I'm going to put a 8X SCSI burner in the top slot. So far it's loaded wtih 128MB/9 + 18GB HD, a good Supermac graphics card and a 10/100 ethernet card.
Hope you get yours fixed,
JB
Looking at your picture of PCB damage, only one track is broken which should be fairly easy to repair (scrape back some of the copper tracing with a scalpel, and use something like a conductive ink pen to repair the broken track). A pin also comes in handy here to clean up any excess.
My eBay 840AV was bashed around too, but sold as such as it cost me ~ $30 AUD in the end. I'm going to put a 8X SCSI burner in the top slot. So far it's loaded wtih 128MB/9 + 18GB HD, a good Supermac graphics card and a 10/100 ethernet card.
Hope you get yours fixed,
JB