[ale] [OT] Mac hardware maintenance

Josh Freeman jkfreeman at gmail.com
Thu Jul 6 14:22:08 EDT 2006


If it's out of warranty, I'd go ahead and do that. You may want to reload
the OS if you can. If this is a 9.x OS, the extensions could be playing
havoc with the system.

Josh

On 7/6/06, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> A couple of years ago I bought an eMac for my stepson.
> It's one of the all-in-one units. Recently, is has started
> to freeze up at random, and the warranty period has
> long ago expired.
>
> There's an Apple service center nearby (at CompUSA),
> but it would cost $120 just for them to look at the
> machine and tell us what it would take to fix it. My
> question is, would it be reasonable for me to open
> this machine up and do the "swap out the RAM, HD,
> etc. until things start working" dance? Or should I
> leave it to the "professionals" at CompUSA? Web
> resources on Mac hardware maintenance seem to be
> pretty thin.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- JK
>
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