It's a kind of laptop display panel protocol, I believe. (:
On 8 Jan 2017 4:13 a.m., "Russell Courtenay" wrote:
> I'll have to look up LVDS, sounds like an STD or a religion
>
> Russell Courtenay
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 7, 2017, at 7:49 AM, Joshua Kelly wrote:
>
> The screen is LVDS, but a few people have put Intel NUCs inside and
> hackintoshed them, with some pretty good results.
>
> On 7 Jan 2017 4:46 a.m., "Russell Courtenay"
> wrote:
>
>> Hmmm... Just thought of something: how about using a miniITX board inside
>> an iMac G4 for a realMac Hackintosh? Is the G4 screen standard VGA?
>>
>> Russell Courtenay
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jan 6, 2017, at 8:54 PM, Jim Scott wrote:
>>
>> All iMac G4s have only one fan, which starts running as soon as the
>> computer is turned on and continues running at the same speed until the
>> unit is turned off. As iMac G4 cooling air enters from the bottom of the
>> case and exits at the base of the chrome stalk, it acts as a vacuum
>> cleaner. If you take it apart and get rid of all the dust bunnies and crud
>> buildup on the fan blades and in the entrance and exit ports for air,
>> you'll get a quieter iMac. On the other hand, perhaps the fan bearing,
>> which is probably getting close to 15 years old, is wearing out and adding
>> to the noise. If you do take the case apart, be sure to remove the old
>> thermal pad material and replace it with thermal paste so that heat
>> generated by the cpu and gpu can be piped up to the fan properly. Good luck!
>> Jim Scott
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Joshua Kelly
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I've been having a very strange issue with my original 700MHz iMac G4
>>> flat panel recently in which the fans decide to start spinning at low speed
>>> the moment I provide power to the system - even before pressing the power
>>> button.
>>>
>>> I've reset PRAM, NVRAM, and even the PMU to no avail.
>>>
>>> I'd really appreciate any help or ideas related to this. While the fans
>>> are remarkably quiet, it does get a little annoying after a while, haha.
>>>
>>> Joshua Kelly
>>> @thejsa_
>>>
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