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Join Date: Jul 2005
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We have a 1 GHZ eMac with a 80 Gig HD and 768 Memory and a Superdrive. Our house was hit by lightning on Thursday and it took out the DSL modem and appears to have taken out the ethernet cards on the emac and the iBook and the IBM Clone. Everything else seems to check out.
Can I just replace the ethernet card? Is it on the motherboard? Any repair places? Any Suggestions? Can I do it myself?
Thanks!
Danny
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Downtown Austin, TX
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It's part of the motherboard, so unless your machine is covered under AppleCare, be prepared to spend a lot of money for a motherboard replacement.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Even if you do have AppleCare, it won't cover that kind of damage. You'd need insurance (such as www.safeware.com, which covers lightning, i think) to cover damage like that.
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Were the machines plugged into surge protectors? If so, check out what (if any) warranty coverage you have from the protector manufacturer.
Failing that, the cheapest thing to do would probably be to get wireless USB dongles (or AirPort cards) and set up a wireless network rather than replacing the MB "just" to fix the dead ethernet ports.
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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Originally Posted by lpetschauer
Were the machines plugged into surge protectors? If so, check out what (if any) warranty coverage you have from the protector manufacturer.
Failing that, the cheapest thing to do would probably be to get wireless USB dongles (or AirPort cards) and set up a wireless network rather than replacing the MB "just" to fix the dead ethernet ports.
Agreed, this will be your best option unless you need really fast transfer speeds between computers. Even if you do consider using target disk mode between the macs or buying an external usb2/firewire drive to share among the 3 computers.
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Washington state
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Check with your home insurance company. They may cover you or not. Get airport cards-not USB cards and a router. sam
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2004
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You can get wired USB adaptors, which is what I would suggest if you have USB2.0.
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I'm a bird. I am the 1% (of pets).
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Thanks for all the help. I am going to pickup a couple of Apple Airport Extreme Cards and the Hub this afternoon and install them.
The folks at the Apple Store was trying to sell me new Motherboards. LOL! Yeah right! $800 each.
As far as insurance goes, I have a $1000 dedeuctable and the total damages to everything was around $1600. So we are going to eat the whole bill as I don't want my rates to raise.
Remember, Insurance is Theft by deception.
Thanks again for all the help!
Danny
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You might want to get some third party insurance than, like Safeware. They offer insurnace with no deductable.
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