Gee sorry to hear about your iMac - I've got a summer 2000 Sage iMac DV+, and had precisely the same problem - lightening strike!
You might want to have a second opinion on the motherboard story, unless you're already dealing with TekServe there in Manhattan - they have gotta be the best in the biz, and if they say its toast then you can believe it.
I was given precisely the same diagnosis by a local firm, fried motherboard. I live in London and they wanted a lot more than what you were quoted to replace it.
But there was something about the tech guys that I didn't like - they just weren't real Mac types. Most techs that are Mac heads are pretty willing to talk Macintosh, and these guys weren't.
So I paid them their diagnosis fee and on a hunch I took the iMac to a second shop, who discovered it had a blown power supply, nothing more. They swapped it out while I waited, and it cost less than 100 quid total, including the first shops fee.
Hopefully you'll have the same experience - in any case, good luck!
You might want to have a second opinion on the motherboard story, unless you're already dealing with TekServe there in Manhattan - they have gotta be the best in the biz, and if they say its toast then you can believe it.
I was given precisely the same diagnosis by a local firm, fried motherboard. I live in London and they wanted a lot more than what you were quoted to replace it.
But there was something about the tech guys that I didn't like - they just weren't real Mac types. Most techs that are Mac heads are pretty willing to talk Macintosh, and these guys weren't.
So I paid them their diagnosis fee and on a hunch I took the iMac to a second shop, who discovered it had a blown power supply, nothing more. They swapped it out while I waited, and it cost less than 100 quid total, including the first shops fee.
Hopefully you'll have the same experience - in any case, good luck!