Logic Board
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- rodzilla
Is fried. Anyway to access the computer to get the information i need off it?
Any tips/tricks welcome. Thanks!
- cannonball0
external enclosure for hard drive.
- duckofrubber0
The logic board is not on the hard drive, so remove it and place into another computer/enclosure, set up properly, and all your data will be there.
- sublocked0
^^^ do that. very easy.
- Horp0
I'm still running a first gen G5 at work and I'm hearing more and more stories of that era's machines conking out now. Eek. Scares me.
- quamb0
one of our g5's logic board fried a few days ago - one quote from an apple store was $2k AUD to get it repaired. No thanks!
- acescence0
yeah, it's never worth getting a logic board swapped, always cheaper for a new machine.
as duckofrubber said, you can just pop the drive into another g5, there should be a spot for it to fit right under the boot drive, with a power and data plug there ready to go.
- rodzilla0
so a tower will work just fine even though the HD is from a powerbook?
- simple_space0
if it is a powerbook, you need another powerbook or you can get an adapter.
easy way to go:
http://www.apricorn.com/product_…
- acescence0
yes, logic board now = motherboard though they started using the term back when their machines had two separate boards
- rafalski0
You need an 2.5" IDE enclosure with an USB out.
If you have a G5 tower, you can connect the drive through an IDE 2.5" to 3.5" adapter, shouldn't be more than $5 on ebay.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.