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Also might work for a trashed board
Authored by: greed on Nov 29, '04 01:50:00PM

Similarly, I recently discovered that my iBook was eligible for the Logic Board Repair Extension Program. The screen did all sorts of neat things I didn't know an LCD could do. Upon reset, when the system discovered it didn't have video, it shut down again. (Mine doesn't have a power LED, so it is very hard to tell--I had to listen for the HDD parking to realize what was happening.)

Well, being the untrusting kind of guy I am, I didn't want to send it in for repair with the drive intact. So I tried target disk mode, and lo! It worked!

A couple of hours with Retrospect and a few blank DVD-Rs and I had a full offline backup, and the online backups were all brought up-to-date. (I'm paranoid... but am I paranoid enough?)

A quick wipe of the hard disk, and off to the nearest repair centre it goes.

One thing, though: Make sure you get the person at the repair centre to WRITE DOWN that you wiped the disk. Otherwise they get very nervous when they can't boot the machine after fixing the logic board--they really don't want to have broken your hard drive in the process....

So, moral is, give Target Disk Mode a try when all is dark and there seems to be no hope....



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