Question about Old iMac
Ok, I was travelling over this past weekend, and happened to visit an Apple store where I was and I wanted to talk to someone at the genius bar about my USB/Ethernet issues, which have since randomly stopped as quickly as they started.
Needless to say, the genius bar guy asked about my old machine, and I told him about the apple repair guy telling me it was a dead PAV board and would cost 500$ to replace, etc. The genius bar guy looked at my as though I was crazy and asked why didn't I just hook up an external monitor to the iMac and continue using it that way.
Here's my question, well questions actually....
1) What does the PAV board actually do?
2) As I understand it (and I could be way off here!) the PAV board stands for Power/Analogue/Video right? Wouldn't that mean that if it is dead, then it wouldn't be able to give the machine power and send the info to an external monitor? Or could just the video be shot on it, and it would still power up ok, and I *could* run an external monitor off of the machine?
3) Was the genius bar right about hooking up an external monitor and getting it to work fine still?
Thanks to you for your help!
Needless to say, the genius bar guy asked about my old machine, and I told him about the apple repair guy telling me it was a dead PAV board and would cost 500$ to replace, etc. The genius bar guy looked at my as though I was crazy and asked why didn't I just hook up an external monitor to the iMac and continue using it that way.
Here's my question, well questions actually....
1) What does the PAV board actually do?
2) As I understand it (and I could be way off here!) the PAV board stands for Power/Analogue/Video right? Wouldn't that mean that if it is dead, then it wouldn't be able to give the machine power and send the info to an external monitor? Or could just the video be shot on it, and it would still power up ok, and I *could* run an external monitor off of the machine?
3) Was the genius bar right about hooking up an external monitor and getting it to work fine still?
Thanks to you for your help!
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Summer 2000 iMac DVSE - Graphite
9.2.2
Slot Loading
500 mhz
40 gig
384 Ram