View Full Version : So I have This iMac...
ThePlague
May 23rd, 2010, 02:13 AM
that i'm supposed to be fixing for this guy. Thing is, I have no idea what the problem is. For one thing, when I first started it up there were purple and yellow lines in the middle of the screen, so I thought to myself, "oh, it's either the graphics card or the screen." Turns out when I unplugged it and plugged it back in, it fixed itself. Now, about 30 minutes ago I tried to update the thing and I got this picture:
http://johnflasser.scifi-frontier.com/storage/pictures/IMG_1652.jpg
It started about 5 minutes into the install and update process.
Now I think it might be either the OS or the Hard Drive.
Any ideas peeps? Because i'm a little confused here.
DEElekgolo
May 23rd, 2010, 02:30 AM
http://deelekgolo.codebrainshideout.net/Pics/2010-05-23_0026.png
There is your problem.
But seriously, errors like that usually mean that the VRAM in its graphic card is being corruped somehow. That happens to me once every 4 or 3 weeks. My cursor and other common UI elements begin to fuck up and the nvidia kernal restarts its self. Each time it happened, it was the same UI elements or maybe a few more than last time. But each time it happened it was always a unique design.
But yea, not using a mac will help.
ThePlague
May 23rd, 2010, 02:52 AM
So it's a graphics error then? And this isn't even mine so...read the whole thing in the OP.
annihilation
May 23rd, 2010, 03:13 AM
Try resetting the PRAM.
StankBacon
May 23rd, 2010, 03:14 AM
is it an actual mac or a hackintosh?
ThePlague
May 23rd, 2010, 12:32 PM
is it an actual mac or a hackintosh?It's the 2008 iMac, the one that's just the huge screen.
Try resetting the PRAM.How do you do that?
annihilation
May 23rd, 2010, 01:07 PM
Yeah, I remember this being a software issue with 2008 iMacs.
Anywhoo here's how you reset the PRAM http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
ThePlague
May 23rd, 2010, 01:40 PM
Thanks. But the thing is, I don't currently have the actual keyboard for it, so i'm using a pc usb keyboard I have. Which keys would those be? lol
Saggy
May 23rd, 2010, 01:52 PM
Thanks. But the thing is, I don't currently have the actual keyboard for it, so i'm using a pc usb keyboard I have. Which keys would those be? lol
Ctrl-Alt-P-R
If that does not work, get an appropriate keyboard.
ThePlague
May 23rd, 2010, 02:30 PM
Okay, tried that (it was actually Alt-Windows-P-R), and it didn't seem to work. And ontop of that, I now have this on my screen:
http://johnflasser.scifi-frontier.com/storage/pictures/Picture%201.png
Now, what's interesting to me is that it was able to screen capture that line.
What the eff?
e: just tried loading up Safari and it froze...
e2: just froze again while on Firefox.
Amit
May 23rd, 2010, 03:02 PM
It's probably best to take it to an Apple Genius at an Apple store.
ThePlague
May 23rd, 2010, 03:27 PM
The guy did, and they said that it was a problem with the video card. Which 'might' be the case, but he gave it to me to see if I could find anything else wrong with it. (they charge a very expensive amount of money)
DEElekgolo
May 23rd, 2010, 08:45 PM
Wow this is a perfect example of one of the mac stereotypes.
Kalub
May 24th, 2010, 12:33 PM
Which one is that again?
It has to be the video device if you can capture the "fragments".
ThePlague
May 24th, 2010, 02:26 PM
It's the white iMac 20 inch. I think it's from 2008.
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