Coincidentally, I just gave up on a 1.8 GHz G5 iMac and put the power supply
on eBay about an hour ago.
The symptoms sound similar and my understanding is that the capacitors on
the motherboard are shot .
I did put a new battery into it but it still acted funny, not waking from
sleep, shutting its
Beverly Woods wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>I have here an Intel iMac (20", early 2006) that appeared to be
> working normally, except that reportedly sometimes it took a long while
> of black screen to wake from sleep. I attempted to upgrade the RAM from
> 512 to 2G (known good RAM that works fine
Christian Wacker wrote:
> So i've been bugging you for weeks about my "new" blueberry iMac and...
> the bugger overheats after a few hours of use...
> I'm tempted to slice out the handle and replace it with a massive blue
> LED fan, or 2 smaller blue LED fans on either side.
> I know this will rui
I'm hoping it's just the power supply. If so, that should be an easy fix AND
preserve the data on my HD.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Elliott Price wrote:
>
> If it won't even boot into the Firmware, it's not the HD. Even without
> the HD the screen should come on, and you should be able to
If it won't even boot into the Firmware, it's not the HD. Even without
the HD the screen should come on, and you should be able to boot it
into the Firmware with any keyboard.
It almost sounds like the power supply; but before you go opening it
up and voiding your warranty, (Even if it is ju
At 6:03 PM -0700 9/28/2009, Dale Goodvin wrote:
>i'm giving my older imac to a very deserving person and I want to
>restore the harddrive to get rid of all of my personal information,
>data, etc.
>
>White soccer-ball base, Power PC G4, 700mhz, current operating system 10.3.9.
>
>Everytime I put
Hi Dennis,
I would give AppCleaner a shot. It's a free download at
http://www.freemacsoft.net/AppCleaner/. AppCleaner not only moves the
program to the trash, but all traces of preferences and any hidden
system files as well. Give this a shot:
1. Use AppCleaner to delete Safari (moves to tr
At 12:39 AM -0700 9/29/2009, Dennis Faulkner wrote:
>
>I have been working on this a while, some of the files I can not
>find, when I try to modify the plist from 5530 to 5525, in the 3
>places I see, I can not get it to save the changes.
Part 2 of run-on: What files can you not find? Moot act
c" key, the computer ejects the cd during the start-up
Try holding the option key during restart — this should bring up the
choice of restarting from the harddrive, CD or whatever other options
are available .
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On Sep 28, 2009, at
Hi folks,
I have here an Intel iMac (20", early 2006) that appeared to be
working normally, except that reportedly sometimes it took a long while
of black screen to wake from sleep. I attempted to upgrade the RAM from
512 to 2G (known good RAM that works fine in another of the same
machine
i'm giving my older imac to a very deserving person and I want to restore the
harddrive to get rid of all of my personal information, data, etc.
White soccer-ball base, Power PC G4, 700mhz, current operating system 10.3.9.
Everytime I put the first of the 4 re-store cd's in, turn off the compute
I have been working on this a while, some of the files I can not find, when I
try to modify the plist from 5530 to 5525, in the 3 places I see, I can not get
it to save the changes. I have tried what it says to allow read and write,
instead of read only, and included the user listed with my n
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