Turn off your caps lock please. Congratulations on your success. If you could put up some photos and details of the modifications you had to make, that would be terrific.

SUCCESS !!!!! I REPLACED THE MOTHER BOARD AND IT ACTUALLY WAS NOT THAT BAD I JUST HAD TO MOVE THE HEAT SINK OVER A LITTLE AND I WENT TO HOME DEPOT AND GOT SOME SHEET METAL CUT IT U…

It's the early 2005 model... But I was really shocked that it doesn't have any dents or scratches on it... I saw the pictures on ebay but you cannot tell or I really do not go by …

Is it the last model with the high resolution screen or the previous model?

AlBooks Nice one mate. The AlBooks still have plenty of life left in 'em. I still use mine as my main laptop. That said, I'd never want a 17", as I can't look at one and say "O…

VERY nice score, comrade!

Aluminum 17" 1.67 on ebay for 460.00. Not one scratch or any dents, which is a miracle b/c everyone i've seen looks like it was through the war...

These are many of my conquests since i started collection macs /repairing computers about 2 years ago: >iMac DV+, my first mac (now my friend's first mac)- garage sale $10 …

Just luck really. I used a combination of Google and archive.org. I think I managed to find the filename first, then an old entry on cnet or download.com that had a dead link back …

Thank you for that. But how did you find it? I looked for hours with no luck, including on the internet archive/ waybackmachine, so a tip on how to look would be useful to have in …

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Does anyone happen to have a copy of the TapGuard 1 or TapGuard 2 PowerBook utility, which is meant to keep a cursor from jumping around due to accidental contact with a trackpad w…

ALL of them are bad? On mine only the orange Rubycons (Fake ones) are dead.In that lot of iMac's you got do you happen to have a good PS? I would buy one from you. Click to expa…

will you please pm me the site were you saw the mod please?

involving glue and duct tape. Click to expand... no no no no no!This topic has actually been covered in mod guides just so you guys know.

ALL of them are bad? On mine only the orange Rubycons (Fake ones) are dead. In that lot of iMac's you got do you happen to have a good PS? I would buy one from you.

I count 25 motherboard capacitors to replace, and then I get to work on the power supply!

thats what i feared ha-ha that i didn't want to have to do that but i guess its the only way thanks for the help.

about the only surefire way to tell is to pull it apart and hold the 2 motherboards next to eachother, notice mounting differences and clearance issues

well i only paid 30 bucks for that mobo do you think its worth doing???? the imac g3 dv graphite that i have is is excellent condition i bought it from the original owner with wa…

It means a lotta nasty hacking, involving glue and duct tape. Yes you could use your current heatsink but its not 100% guaranteeed to work.

sorry hahah when you say mod the heat sink ........ what would happen if i just used the heat sink from my 400 and used it on the 600? is that possible? or is it in a different loc…

AHHH. Are you like screaming? Check your caps lock man! I have thought of the same thing with my 350mhz. They are not compatible, but you can mod the heatsink to be on top of …

HI I HAVE A IMAC G3 DV AND THE 400 MHZ PROCESSOR JUST ISNT DOING IT FOR ME SO STUPID ME I WENT ON EBAY WITHOUT ANY RESEARCH AND BOUGHT A 600 MHZ IMAC G3 MOTHERBOARD AND I AM HAVING…

I agree a free mac in any condition is AWESOME!!!!! (all of mine were free )