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What's Wrong With My Mac?
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<blockquote data-quote="RavingMac" data-source="post: 1453636" data-attributes="member: 45350"><p>Looks to me like the Graphics Processor is going south. Not familiar with 17in iMacs, will do some checking.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: The only 1.9 GHz CPU I can find in a 17in iMac, was in the G5 version, which wasn't an Intel processor. The G5s were prone to overheating issues, which was one of the main reasons for the switch to Intel.</p><p></p><p>EDIT2: Unless the problem is uber-simple and cheap, I wouldn't bother trying to fix an iMac of this vintage. If you keep your eyes open you can probably pickup a fairly recent vintage iMac for not much more than the cost to repair (and depending on what you have to replace) possibly much cheaper than the repair.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RavingMac, post: 1453636, member: 45350"] Looks to me like the Graphics Processor is going south. Not familiar with 17in iMacs, will do some checking. EDIT: The only 1.9 GHz CPU I can find in a 17in iMac, was in the G5 version, which wasn't an Intel processor. The G5s were prone to overheating issues, which was one of the main reasons for the switch to Intel. EDIT2: Unless the problem is uber-simple and cheap, I wouldn't bother trying to fix an iMac of this vintage. If you keep your eyes open you can probably pickup a fairly recent vintage iMac for not much more than the cost to repair (and depending on what you have to replace) possibly much cheaper than the repair. [/QUOTE]
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