Late 2006 iMac sudden-death

2011-10-03 Thread Bill Spencer
Hi there: My late 2006 iMac (IMac Core 2 Duo 1.83 ghz/2 g RAMLion as of one week ago/purchased September 2006) figuratively blew up yesterday morning: screen freeze-ups, bizarre screen activity (that looked like what I'm guessing a bad LSD trip would be like) or no booting at all, just a black

Re: Late 2006 iMac sudden-death

2011-10-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 3, 2011, at 10:28 AM, Bill Spencer wrote: Hi there: My late 2006 iMac (IMac Core 2 Duo 1.83 ghz/2 g RAMLion as of one week ago/purchased September 2006) figuratively blew up yesterday morning: screen freeze-ups, bizarre screen activity I took it to the local Apple store where my

iMac G5 Motherboard repairs

2011-10-03 Thread Wayne Getchel
I have noticed over the past year many requests for replacement iMac G5 motherboards on the swap group. I found myself in the same boat when I inherited 2 2006 G5 iMacs one 17 inch 2.0 ghz and one 20 inch 2.0 ghz. A further investigation I discovered a site that does replacement capacitor service

Re: iMac G5 Motherboard repairs

2011-10-03 Thread Mac Daddy
I just finished doing the capacitor replacement on a G5 iMac. There are 30 capacitors on the board; however, uness a capacitor is swollen or popped, it does not need to be replaced. I only needed to do five capacitors. Several years earlier Apple had replaced about 25 capacitors and the five I