mac pro logic board needs replaced

Thanks Kahjot :-) This is great news! I just wish I hadn't had to go through all of this stress. I called Apple's corporate office today- they're going to investigate. I also called my credit card company and opened a dispute on the charge, he said he thinks I have a good chance of getting my money back too.

I want to thank everyone who helped me here, I learned a lot and I will try to read more here and become a bit more adept and computer savy from the tech point of view if I'm able. This is a great forum.

Thank you. I want something at least as good as what I have but I'm weary of buying something off of ebay or craigslist. I spoke with someone at Apple and he said a mini mac is now as good as my mac pro! Is that true? I may just do that eventually but there is no dvd access so I would have to buy the other device too. I have a lovely large lacie monitor so I don't need a monitor. He also said mine if repaired and working is still worth about $1200-1400 so I wonder if I can sell it and either put that towards a mini mac or another mac pro? I would have to spend the $700 on repair though.

The Texas company said they will repair the logic board for around $475 with a prepaid shipping label. I'm still not sure what to do. I worry about spending $700 to fix it and then finding out something else is wrong which will cost more, however I'm not ready to let this lovely machine go yet.

What do you think? I'm not capable of moving the hard drives around etc. I have no idea and would most likely botch the whole thing.

There is no trade in with apple but he suggested if this repair center or another retailer would let me trade in I could do that. I know they will repair and sell my machine though wherever I go and make a profit. I just wonder if I will be happy with a mini mac, the small size would be great though, but will I be able to do all my photo editing etc. with that? If a transfer of data is done and it's not a simple back up someone else will have to do it.

I have no idea what the hard drives are so it's unlikely I will be taking them out and putting them into another machine- I'm not into any of that. I bought a used i4s on ebay and it has issues so no more ebay purchases of that sort for me. OWC- I have two external hard drives from them and one failed which I barely used, it was probably never working properly in the first place but I was ill at the time and I didn't have the energy to deal with it.

I'm not going to pay for a used mac pro from owc if I can just have this one repaired and maybe have it run for a few more years. Besides which a 90 day warranty is not enough time to see if something major will happen with computers.. if I had brought the 2008 in when it slowed down a bit it would have been repaired for free on the apple care prolly.

I do feel dubious that a mini mac can be like a mac pro, even an old one however he seemed convinced of this and said the technology has changed so much even in the past year.. he has one and uses it with his tv, but he also has a mac pro reconfigured or something, I couldn't tell exactly what he meant.

I found a mini mac refurb 3ghz duel core intel i7, to be honest these terms mean little to me since I orginally purchased my 2008. I bought a macbook pro in 2012 that they told me was almost as good as the 2008 around the time I stopped using it so much when it slowed down and I was getting sick. It's great for my editing so maybe I don't need something quite as super duper as the 2008 after all, so I wonder if this mini mac would do?

I will probably just repair mine and hope it isn't wasted money.

I have no idea what duel care is? Does this mean it will be faster or is it worse?

Unfortunately I can't watch this in chrome- I will try in safari, you do know though that things always look easy until you actually try doing them and then everything that can possibly go wrong does- at least for me 90% of the time.

Thanks, I will try again... here is the info on my early 2008 btw: model # A8116 Mac Pro 3.0 8CX/2X 1G/320/2800T/S. I'm not sure how this would compare to the mini I mentioned or to another mac pro maybe a 2009 as you have mentioned... I will ask the repair center which machine they want to put my hard drive into but I'm not sure how to tell if it's as good as mine since this is all non sensical to me at this point, I can't remember what it means. Does dual core mean it will be faster?