On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 09:29 AM, Lee Einer wrote:
>
> Hi, all-
>
> A little off topic, apologies in advance-
>
> A friend of mine in PA has some major grief with his IMac. He tells me
> that he has only two USB ports on the thing, apparently no serial
> ports, and that both of them are now trashed. He says the physical
> ports pretty much fell apart, and will not even hold a cable any more.
> His local repair shop quoted him $500 plus labor to fix (apparently
> they were just going to do a motherboard swap?) which he does not
> have. At this point, he can't even get the data off his hard drive, as
> both the keyboard and mouse are USB.
>
> Is there any low-cost fix or work-around for an IMac in this condition?
I know some local folks, at least one an Apple trained and certified
tech, who charge about $30-$40 for repairs of this kind. Generally you
meet these kinds of people through users groups. Send him to
<
http://www.apple.com/usergroups/find/> to loink up with his local
group.
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