At 00:59 -0500 12/17/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Wow, >I thought I kicked over a hornets nest! >Thank you to everyone who has responded. It's really great to have >honest people sharing the good and not so good info on vendors. I'll >be cautious in my dealings. >Thanks again >Steve >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To give you a somewhat more useful response than my whining about Newsell... The board you want is called the Venus Board. They aren't commonly available. As far as I know they are a Umax part and not a case part. That is, you probably can't get them from Palo Alto Products (the maker of the case). However, the board is a pretty simple minded little thing. I've even considered running off a bunch of them, but there's just no market that would allow me to even recoup the costs, much less make anything for the effort (I might do it for costs, just because I enjoy that kind of thing). Anyway, the point is that the board is so simple that unless you physically broke the circuit board, anyone who is reasonably skilled at soldering should be able to fix the thing. IIRC, your microphone jack is broken. You could probably scavenge a replacement off of an old (and inexpensive) 6100 motherboard. The only issue here is that some models had a stacked speaker/microphone jack that was all one piece (e.g. 7200) which would not be usable as a replacement and others have separate microphone nad speaker jacks, which is what you need. I'd recommend just getting it at a parts store, which is what you could do if it was the speaker jack you needed, but the Apple Microphone jack on these machines is an odd bird because it supplies power to the microphone. So scavenging one off of an old machine is probably your best option. So if you're handy with a soldering pencil or know someone who is that's probably your best route. Sorry about highjacking your thread earlier. Mentioning Newsell to me is like waving a red cape in front of a bull. I want them to suffer grievously, but that shouldn't interfere with folks getting the help that they need. Jeff Walther -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
