connor Regan Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 Hi, I have an emac g4 that has a number of problems, It is a 1.25gz. Sometimes it will boot to a blue, blank screen, on holding down the alt key I see the boot drive and I can start up (10.4os) but will go to the blue screen again. When it does start up properly, which it does for no apparent reason, there are little dash shaped spots on the screen and a flashing horizontal flicker. I ran fsck and disk utility and installed a fresh version of 10.4 to no avail. I do not have the original disks so cannot run hardware test. The computer falls under the Apple emac screen repair but they will not accept it because it is out of the three year time limit, very frustrating and unfair. I read about an IVAD cable that can be replaced to repair the problem but am not sure if it is relevant to this problem. I would be very grateful for any ideas, thanking you in advance, Connor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolied Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 Chances are, if it's a 1.25GHz eMac, and it's having those types of problems, it's probably system board failure. If I am not mistaken, there was a bad batch of capacitors used in these machines. This link may be helpful: http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2006/05/125_ghz_emacs_p.html Another link (lengthy discussion thread): http://www.macfixitforums.com/ubbthreads.p...ite_id/1#import Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaaseyRacer Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Call Apple or go to a reseller and see if there is an extended service on that particular serial range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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