Monday, July 23, 2007
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
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Re-encode your iTunes library.★
I was surfing the Apple Discussion boards, (http://discussions.apple.com) and came across this great tip on how to re-encode your entire iTunes library from John Sutherland.In the iTunes preferences pane, select the advanced tab. Then, under 'import using', select MP3 (or your chosen format).
Click OK, then click the advanced menu, and click 'Consolidate Library'. Alternatively click on a song you want converted and via the advanced menu again, click 'Convert Selection to MP3'. As John points out, this will create a duplicate of your song, and you can delete the original.
The problem I run into is that I quickly lose track of which song is the duplicate, and which is the original. A quick way to tell is by ctrl+clicking (right clicking on PC's) the song and clicking Get Info. Under the summary / general tab, it'll display the encoding format, and you can use this to differentiate between the new MP3 song and the original song.
Happy Mac'ing!
★ 0 Comments. | By Skippy, Sunday, July 22, 2007 1:27 PM
