All, Thanks for all of the rather excellent advice in this thread, I greatly appreciate it. Also in this instance, there is a (very) happy ending. Things worked out so that my aunt was able to purchase a brand new Mac Mini, and I had a spare monitor. She was also able to pick up a new copy of QuickBooks.
After taking apart her old iMac and removing the disk, and after much finger crossing, Migration Assistant in Lion seamlessly moved over all of her old data to the new machine. Thankfully she had used the iApps (Safari, Mail, iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie) for everything but QuickBooks so she was elated to see everything there still intact, just a lot faster with a new look. Even QuickBooks imported all of the old data successfully, and she's back in business. I'll give Apple that. I know the tech behind it, but I still find it rather amazing that we were able to go from one rather old install and architecture to a new one with - to be honest - minimal impact. Granted things would have been a LOT different without the good fortune that allowed the hardware and software upgrades, but hey. Again, super appreciated. Ben On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 07:58:28PM -0500, Golden Silence wrote: > Hello, Ben: > > First shot, you might want to try target disk mode. > Second, would your machine host their drive? > Third, a PC with Transmac would allow you to see the data until a new Mac can > be acquired. > > Good luck, (maybe a cheap Mac from Good Will?) > > Bob > > On Jul 2, 2012, at 5:21 PM, bdinger wrote: > > Hi All, > My aunt has a 17in 1.8 G5 iMac (M9843LL/A) that unfortunately seems > to have a bad logic board. You know, comes on but with the fans set > at "747" and no SMU or PRAM reset will do much for it. They don't > have the most means-wise, and so I'm looking at options for them. > Right now it's either: > 1.) Find the same model, and move the hard disk over to it > 2.) Somehow migrate the data onto a newer Intel Mac > > Obviously I'd prefer 2, but I know that using Migration assistant all > but requires the source to either be working, or a recent OS level. > So I can hope that I'd find a Intel Mac for her running Tiger still, > but that likelihood is low, and even if so I've never run migration > assistant using a external drive AND going from PPC to Intel. > > Any suggestions? This is just a bad situation all around as in > addition, this machine contains the QuickBooks data for their > business. > > Cheers, > Ben > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a > group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular > focus on Power Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/ > netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ > g3-5-list > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette > guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
