Afrojet is experiencing technical difficulties.
Yup that’s afrojet there; a work in progress. It’s on life support awaiting a new DC power input/sound card. And until she’s back up and running at full power my reports from the front lines will be less frequent. If all goes well the transplant piece will arrive in the next 24 hours. If I’m able to put all the pieces back together we should be tearing it up again real soon.
The misses tripped over the power supply this weekend, completely tearing out the entire power supply, rendering the deck pretty much useless. We brought it into the Apple store to see what they could do, but they insisted that the part that was broken was connected to the logic board and any further repairs would run us up into the $800 dollar range. I thanked him and walked out. As a side note, I was very disappointed that the Apple store didn’t carry the new XServer – at least a floor model, something to gawk at.
Anyway, when I left the apple store I decided to see if I couldn’t repair the damage myself. I figured I had nothing to loose. When I took everything apart I found that the power input is in fact _NOT_ connected to the logic board and is attached to a small, much less expensive sound card. This was a great discovery, only trouble now was getting someone to sell me a replacement sound card. Multiple inquiries to Apple Support and Repair, left me angry and frustrated as they continued to tell me that the damn thing was attached to the logic board and I would have to send it in for repair. “But Damn it, I’m looking right at this fucking thing and it’s definitely NOT attached to the fucking logic board.”
“Well I’m sorry sir, your just going to have to send it in and have us take a look at it”…and…
“no we wont sell you that part.” Basically telling me to fuck off for trying to fix this myself and they strongly encourage people not to do that because then they don’t get to charge you a ton of money for repairs. Say what you want about the shadiness of Microsoft, but don’t think for two seconds that Apple is somehow a more righteous company. Think Different, my ass.
So long story short, I had to go to the black-market to track down the card. I think I might just hang out here in the back alleys for awhile…stay tuned.