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iMac screen unusuable

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Name: Jessica
Date: November 1, 2002 at 17:51:36 Pacific
OS: 10.1
CPU/Ram: G4/?
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I have a two-month old swivel screen iMac. A few days ago, after I would wake the computer up from sleep, the screen would be white and nothing I did could bring it back to the normal screen. If I swiveled the screen or hit it, sometimes multi-colored horizontal or vertical lines would appear. What's wrong with my beloved iMac?



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Response Number 1
Name: the pickle
Date: November 1, 2002 at 21:47:25 Pacific
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Sounds like a bad connection in the screen somewhere. See if an Apple dealer can take a look at it and diagnose anything.

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Name: jeroen P.
Date: November 2, 2002 at 16:57:20 Pacific
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Sound like you have a defective Analog Video Board. You will probably have to repalce it.
Before that, please try this:
reset pram (restart, while pressing apple-option-P-R; wait for the chime (3 times)
reset fimrware (restart, press apple-option-O-F; type 'reset-nvram, set-defaults, reset-all
try a cuda reset (on the motherboard there will be a small switch, tunr the mac off, pull the power plug out, turn it on (..), press the small swtich for about 45-50 seconds. After that it should start up.
If this doenst d othe trick, most likely you will have to replace the AVB (about 300-400 euro (340 usd)...

good luck

jp


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Response Number 3
Name: the pickle
Date: November 2, 2002 at 17:22:16 Pacific
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Unless I'm missing something terribly obscure, the new iMacs don't have any analogue video components at all, because LCDs are entirely digital.

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