I have a 24Aluminum iMac, of mid-2007 vintage I believe. After a few
months, I started running games on it in Windows - and promptly
encountered video artifacting. After much research, I found that
overheating was the cause of the problem. Installing fan control
software, like smcfancontrol and
I'm working on a 600MHz iMac G3 whose CD-RW drive has a hard time
intaking and ejecting discs; it ejects the disc partway, then strains
for a while as if the 5V (?) it's getting from the computer just isn't
enough to push it all the way out, then pulls it in and mounts it
again. Does anyone know,
I've done a lot of googling, and I can't find anything related to this
problem with an eMac:
When you turn it on, it beeps 5 times, then flashes the power LED 5
times, pause, 5 times. The fan comes on, but the display never does. I
tried a different RAM module, in both RAM slots with the same
MIne does that too - I usually just give it a little help by running a piece of
paper or another disc past the left hand corner of the drive slot, triggering
the release lever in there. This pops enough of the disc out to grab it. I
guess it is the release mechanism that is failing, probably
On Jun 21, 2010, at 12:12 PM, Elliott wrote:
I've done a lot of googling, and I can't find anything related to this
problem with an eMac:
When you turn it on, it beeps 5 times, then flashes the power LED 5
times, pause, 5 times. The fan comes on, but the display never does. I
tried a
On Jun 24, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Andrew Main wrote:
I'm working on a 600MHz iMac G3 whose CD-RW drive has a hard time
intaking and ejecting discs; it ejects the disc partway, then strains
for a while as if the 5V (?) it's getting from the computer just isn't
enough to push it all the way out,
On Jun 22, 2010, at 7:50 AM, fanatamac wrote:
Hi group,
My Imac G5 20 inch, 1.8 recently turned into vacuum cleaner mode;
won't recognize the hard drive no matter what.
Would appreciate advice on selling - better to list as a whole system
for fix or parts, or part it out and sell the
At 12:12 PM -0700 6/21/2010, Elliott wrote:
When you turn it on, it beeps 5 times, then flashes the power LED 5
times, pause, 5 times. The fan comes on, but the display never does.
Does anything change when you remove all the memory?
As Jim has replied, the 5 beeps indicates a processor
