Greetings, all.
My wife called me today to report that our 25-month-old iMac (sans
Applecare) display was dark. I could VNC into it, so I knew it was
fine - just that the LCD backlight had died. Later I couldn't VNC
into it anymore, and when I got home it wouldn't boot. Not even into
target disk mode!
So... I'm wondering what might have happened. I suspect a total
meltdown - LCD and motherboard - but why might that have happened?!
There is a clicking sound coming from the dome, when I try to boot
it. I can't tell if it's the hard drive or the DVD drive, but I ran
a SMART test just this past weekend, and it came back clean.
Has anyone else ever heard of this?
This particular machine is a 17" 1.25 GHz G4. I had a 512MB stick in
the user-accessible slot, but removing that did not allow it to boot
into TDM.
WEIRD! And: THIS STINKS!
Do you feel my pain? :(
Daniel
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