If you plug in an external display, dies it have the lines too? if so, the GPU is dying. If not, the LCD is dying On Nov 27, 2009, at 1:36 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi > > I'm at my sister's house looking at her imac and there are > horizontal lines across the screen. > > She is disabled (had a stroke and has severe speech center damage) > and can't tell me when this started or what she was doing at the > time. > > > 2 GHz Power PC G5 17" flat panel iMac running 10.4.11 (2GB RAM, > 250GB HD) > > Can anyone point me in the right direction to start looking for a > solution? If this is fixable is it worth the cost. She just > bought this machine used 6 months ago. She is on a fixed income and > I can't afford to buy a new machine for her either. > > Thanks for any suggestions > > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac > Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is athttp://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to imaclist > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/imaclist -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
