IMac g4 motherboard upgrade???

Hello,
If i Could snag myself a imac g4 1 ghz motherboard and take it and my mac to my local apple store would they install it for me because i want to install os X leopard please respond ASAP
Thank you

Hi, if the iMac you have listed in your sig is the iMac you are planning on doing the MB swap then you
probably won't get it to work since the motherboard and cabling is quite a bit different. It will not be a straight swap at least from what I can see since I just had an iMac 1GHz apart for a repair and upgrade.
First, the heat pipe pads are different. I believe yours will only have the one contact point while the 1GHz MB has two.
Also you have two cables plus HD/CD ribbon cable from the top to the motherboard while the 1GHz has a single connector which is entirely different than the ones you have. Even the power cable looks different....
I only have pix up on my website for the older 700MHz as I just got the 1GHz yesterday but from what I can see it won't work.
Kevin

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