iMac Woes, Update.★
Well a nice fellow turned up at my door today asking if it was alright if he could fix my iMac. Actually he turned up half a block away on the other side of a river, where he promptly got lost and called me for directions. I don't blame him though, because my village is a crazy crazy place.Turns out that the iMac logic board is fried, he tried out the probos fix for the iMac grey screen of death and all we got was a garbled video output. He took the iMac away and will call me shortly to arrange a time to drop it back off. He also said he'd take a look at the hard drive after replacing the logic board, and then reinstall osx.
So I assume that while some units can be sorted with the probos fix, others, like mine, cannot and must have a hardware repair.
The engineer also mentioned that the logic board failure would have had very little to do with boot camp. Relieving news.
Also note that the 'grey screen', isn't actually any video output. It's just the backlight. Bet you knew that.
So, if you're having the same problem, make sure you give Apple Support a phone, and I wish you the best of luck!
Labels: white screen of death
★ 2 Comments. | By Skippy, Monday, July 23, 2007 3:48 PM | Links to this post
I has a question! Which key does the icon shown when MacTake links are highlighted correspond to? It's part of the 'Force Quit' Keyboard shortcut command thing, but I'll be darned if I can find it on my Keyboard *scratches head*....
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Sorry! It's the ESC key symbol, and only shows up on US keyboards (I think)... I've reversed it and rotated it a bit too.
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