[Peabo]

I have a Quicksilver G4 733 with a Geforce 3, 640 megs of ram an Audiophile 2496 sound card and 40 gig hard drive with a fried mobo that I am willing to sell. I don't need it anymore and the cost to get it repaired would not really be worth it given that I have a much better mac now!

Is it even worth selling? What would I get for it, and what would be a good starting price on eBay?

[monkeyspeak]

Originally posted by z0ne81:
I have a Quicksilver G4 733 with a Geforce 3, 640 megs of ram an Audiophile 2496 sound card and 40 gig hard drive with a fried mobo that I am willing to sell. I don't need it anymore and the cost to get it repaired would not really be worth it given that I have a much better mac now!

Is it even worth selling? What would I get for it, and what would be a good starting price on eBay?

You'd probably get more money by parting it out and selling the parts individually. Some Cube owner would probably spend a pretty penny for the GeForce; somebody with a blown power supply would go nuts for the power supply; etc.

[mainemanx]

"Any point selling G4 with fried mobo?" To which one must ask, "Is there any point keeping a G4 with a fried mobo?" The answer of course, depends on whether your G4 is half full or half empty.

To be or not to be.... that is the question.

Should it go or should it stay... that is the Clash.

[Mafia]

Originally posted by monkeyspeak:
You'd probably get more money by parting it out and selling the parts individually. Some Cube owner would probably spend a pretty penny for the GeForce; somebody with a blown power supply would go nuts for the power supply; etc.

ya, part it out and sell on ebay.

[macaddict0001]

split it up divide the parts if you can use anything in another computer do it its better than selling the parts.

[Spliffdaddy]

How 'fried' is the motherboard?

Lots of things can be repaired - though not often worth the cost.

90% of the time the problem is with a voltage regulator circuit, and the components are usually biggish and easy to handle - not tiny with lots of connections, like a northbridge chipset. Maybe 5% of the time the problem is with corrupt firmware (BIOS, in PC land) code.

I've fixed a few motherboards, but I've tossed out many more.

[Peabo]

fried means in this case:
It used to take a long long time to start up, often freezing on the blue or gray screen. Sometimes it would start up with multicoloured, blocky artifacts all over the screen. Oftern it wouyld freeze mid-use with these artifacts all over the screen. Eventually it just never turned on again.

Also, a repair comapny offered me £150 for the computer as-is. Worth it?

[webcookie]

Originally posted by z0ne81:
Also, a repair comapny offered me £150 for the computer as-is. Worth it?

I'm thinking you'll get more money if you sell the individual parts.

[d.fine]

Originally posted by z0ne81:
I have a Quicksilver G4 733 with a Geforce 3, 640 megs of ram an Audiophile 2496 sound card and 40 gig hard drive with a fried mobo that I am willing to sell. I don't need it anymore and the cost to get it repaired would not really be worth it given that I have a much better mac now!

Is it even worth selling? What would I get for it, and what would be a good starting price on eBay?

How much do you want for it ? I might be interested ! If you want you can pm me, or send me an e-mail at zoe(dot)sterckx(at)gmail(dot)com
Do you have any available pictures of the G4 ?

Thanks.

[Eriamjh]

Originally posted by z0ne81:
fried means in this case:
It used to take a long long time to start up, often freezing on the blue or gray screen. Sometimes it would start up with multicoloured, blocky artifacts all over the screen. Oftern it wouyld freeze mid-use with these artifacts all over the screen. Eventually it just never turned on again.

Also, a repair comapny offered me £150 for the computer as-is. Worth it?

Did you try replacing the processor or reseating the heatsink? Maybe it is not the mobo, but simply an overheating processor from a displaced heatink.

Remove the heatsink, clean the CPU, inspect, remove, reseat the CPU, apply heatsink compound, reseat heatsink, cross toes and fingers and boot away!

Let us know what happens!

(Warning: Neither MacNN nor its members are responsible for damage caused by above advice!)

[Peabo]

Originally posted by d.fine:
How much do you want for it ? I might be interested ! If you want you can pm me, or send me an e-mail at zoe(dot)sterckx(at)gmail(dot)com
Do you have any available pictures of the G4 ?

Thanks.

I was hoping to get £200-£250 for it. I forget to mention that it also has a combo drive in it too. I can take pictures later if you like - the case is in great condition.

[Person Man]

Originally posted by z0ne81:
Also, a repair comapny offered me £150 for the computer as-is. Worth it?

What is most likely in that case is that said repair company will turn around and sell the usable parts and make a nice tidy sum on their initial £150 investment.

Take the advice of everyone else here... SELL THE INDIVIDUAL PARTS ON EBAY! You will probably make AT LEAST £150 and hitting your target of £200-£250 and then some is not an impossibility...

For example, my brother had a Lombard Powerbook. The keyboard died, and so he had no choice but to buy a replacement one from Apple. It cost him US $100. Had he sold the broken keyboard on eBay, he would have gotten maybe 50 cents (if that). I jokingly suggested that he should take the keycaps (just the tops of the keys) off and sell them on eBay. The whole set sold for US $47!

Advertise a "broken G4" on eBay as is, and you won't get much for it, because people will tend to look at it as a whole. They won't see it as a hard drive worth £35, a combo drive worth £30, a power supply worth £20, and so on. Instead they'll see a broken computer worth £10.