I do have some massive cooling issues. It usually crashes about 2
hours into anything. (not that I use it for much, but it has crashed
when transferring files 8 times, to the point where I have to copy 1gb
at a time, and pray that it doesn't overheat)
Upon investigating the structural integrety of
I think there are free or cheap programs that will tell you what the internal
temperatures are, I would look for these on cnet or one of the mac sites, and
see what the internal temps actually are. If internal temps really are a
problem, I would make sure the inside is relatively clean (not a
At 5:57 PM -0700 9/28/2009, Dennis Faulkner wrote:
>I accidentally installed Safari for Leopard, and I meant to do Tiger.
How did you manage to do that?
>I tried uninstalling the Leopard version by dragging to the trash
>and restarting, but when I download the correct update it will not
>load,
Your hard drive died.
Take it to an apple store.
Mine did the same thing two months out of warranty.
I now have a 500 GB HD for $250 from a third party recommended by the
Apple store.
Sent from my eyeFone
On Sep 28, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Jonathan Rowson
wrote:
> I've just run into a problem, m
I called AppleCare, but my warranty has ran out. I really wish Apple would
give us a chance to renew the warranty after the 3 years is up.
I accidentally installed Safari for Leopard, and I meant to do Tiger. I
tried uninstalling the Leopard version by dragging to the trash and restarting
I've just run into a problem, my iMac won't boot. It's a late 2008 2.8 GHz
Core 2 Duo. When I press the power button, I hear a 'whirr' like the HD or
SuperDrive is spinning up and it stops and makes a short click. It won't get
past that. I can't get into target mode, I can't hold the option key bec
Hi.
I had one maxxed on RAM, large hard drive, dvd drive fitted and
running Tiger and the thing used to smell it got that hot. A burning
plastic smell. It was a 400Mhz slot loading model.
You have to remember it is only a G3 and most apps will stress out the
processor and other internal co
Unless it's getting really, really hot, enough to crash your system, I
would say it's not that much of a problem. Since they don't have a fan
and cool by letting the heat rise up and out of the vent around the
handle, if that area is hot it means the computer's insides aren't as
hot. It's
