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Mac mini horror story

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Jan 22, 2008
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I was upgrading the memory in my Mac mini a couple days ago and so far the opening and the upgrade went well, until when I was reinserting the ribbon cable (if you've ever opened a Mac mini you know which one) I heard a popping sound coming from the connector. A few moments later the connector fell off, turns out the connector is only soddered by 4 very tiny soddering points. I went to the local Mac Store in town the next day and I ordered a whole new replacement board. I advise you to just be careful whenever you are upgrading a mini. :) The part hasn't come yet btw.
 
How much did the replacement board run you? My logic board died on my mini about a year ago, and I was looking at over $400 for a new one.
 
I only had to replace the interconnect board which was only $30 from Apple. The logic board at least on my mini is fine.
 
three said:
I only had to replace the interconnect board which was only $30 from Apple. The logic board at least on my mini is fine.
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Lucky dog. My mini has been sitting in storage unusable needing a $400 fix to a machine paid $500 for, and worth about $200.
 
Why are you reinserting the ribbon cable? I have had mine apart several times and have left that cable connected.
 
czachorski said:
Lucky dog. My mini has been sitting in storage unusable needing a $400 fix to a machine paid $500 for, and worth about $200.
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Isn't that the way, it happens to everything, including cars. The question is when to stop pouring money in, but then again when you can't afford to buy a new car or newer car, then just fixing it is the best at times. I , know random ,but what ever its late!
 
If it wasn't very hard to find donor mac-mini's on eBay, some of these parts could probably be had on the cheap, right?
 
petermcphee said:
If it wasn't very hard to find donor mac-mini's on eBay, some of these parts could probably be had on the cheap, right?
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Not logic boards. Since they are worth as much as the entire machine, they seem to be harder to find on the cheap.
 
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