I'd be curious how many of us have had our CPU, etc replaced...
My 2400 was built the 30th week of 97...and it died approx.
5/12/99...however, keep in mind I bought it new June 12, 1998...so it sat on
a shelf for a year (the battery was dead out of the box, Apple replaced it
immediately) and I actually used it for 11 months before it died.
By the way the receipt from Apple repair stated that Part # 661-1339,
Description: CRD, CPU, 603E, 180MHZ was replaced. Is that both the CPU and
daughtercard?
Those interested, send me your production date info and repair info and I'll
keep track...and publish it to the list say in a week to ten days so all
have time to respond.
I wonder if the new board will last longer than 11 months...and to think I
almost didn't get Apple Care...
And to those who see this as an attack on Apple...it's not...it's just that
they should/could be a bit more responsible...if it were you who paid the
original $3,500 for this machine, or even $2,000...you might be singing a
different tune. Think Different about it.
Regards.
-- "Be Impeccable with Your Word, Don't Take Anything Personally, Don't Make
Assumptions, & Always Do Your Best"
-- from "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz
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> It may be a good idea to note that my machine (as well as many others) didn't
> have a bad CPU daughtercard, but a bad logic board (which is more or less
> everything but the CPU). I suspected this but sent all three boards to DT&T
> anyway (the other one is power+I/O and has virtually no logic on it), and
> they confirmed that the logic board was the only dead one (which sucks,
> because I could have replaced the CPU card with a G3 :). It appears there's
> more than one failure mode being reported here; the majority I've read about
> were the logic board (as one would expect when 99% of the solid-state parts
> are there), but some say it was the CPU. Unfortunately some of either group
> may be people who aren't really aware which board was replaced, or even that
> there are two boards with logic on them - it's possible that even the above
> quoted "CPU cards" doesn't specifically mean the CPU daughterboard, for
> instance. CPUs don't fail much in the real world unless they're seriously
> overclocked, and the one in the stock 2400 doesn't run all that hot. It's the
> same part you'd find in any other 603e Mac of around 180-200MHz, after all.
>
> btw, my dead 2400 was built in the 31st week of 1997. Kim's suggestion of
> tracking the build dates of the ones that die is a good one; anyone want
> to volunteer to keep track? :)
>
>
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