Dead iMac

fray bentos · January 28, 2003 11:02AM

A friend has this problem with his iMac (in his own words):

"Loaded up OS X.2 and during install the the screen went black although I could

still hear the disc drive. Turned off and on again and the iMac booted up in X but

the screen was very dark and green-coloured. Booted up again and the screen

didn't respond at all, although I could hear the hard drive booting up. Now, this

happens every time I switch on - no picture but plenty of sound."

What is to be done? Any ideas?

I think it's 350 MHz iMac (without a VGA port).

ghost_user_name · January 28, 2003 1:00PM

Tsk. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> More people really should read those "Read Me Before Installing" documents. This sounds like another case of what happened here:

<a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=001805"; target="_blank">http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=001805</a>;

and

<a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=001813"; target="_blank">http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=001813</a>;

skully25 · January 29, 2003 12:27PM

never ever reset your comp during the installation of an other operating system!!!!!!!!

this can be fatal to your computer, mt friend had the same problem and he had to buy a new comp, so beware

spiffster · January 29, 2003 10:52PM

Try updating your firmware, and read the Read Me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These OS installations are much more important then installing a little piece of shareware.

Dead iMac

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