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**Raven** · 03-13-2008

If you want to know if it's safe to plug it in to your laptop, I'd go back and ask him. Specifically, ask why/how he determined that the motherboard was blown. There are more reasons for a machine to stop booting than a monkey has hairs, and some of them could possibly be caused by your iPod.

(I don't mean to sound snarky. There's a big difference between knowing enough computers to fix them and the kind of basic knowledge everyone should have. If you took your car to the mechanic and he said 'whoops, car's broken, you're going to have to get a new one,' you'd ask what, specifically, was broken and how/if it could be fixed, right?)

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Raven TAB Author Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Greater Bostonia Posts: 522	If you want to know if it's safe to plug it in to your laptop, I'd go back and ask him. Specifically, ask why/how he determined that the motherboard was blown. There are more reasons for a machine to stop booting than a monkey has hairs, and some of them could possibly be caused by your iPod. (I don't mean to sound snarky. There's a big difference between knowing enough computers to fix them and the kind of basic knowledge everyone should have. If you took your car to the mechanic and he said 'whoops, car's broken, you're going to have to get a new one,' you'd ask what, specifically, was broken and how/if it could be fixed, right?) __________________ PowerMac DualG5 2 Ghz, 4GB RAM, 820 GB hard drives 15'' MacBook Pro, 2.16 Ghz, 2 GB RAM - oh, and the Apple IIe Last edited by Raven; 03-13-2008 at 11:34 AM.