>From what I understand of the yellowing process, it’s caused by heat from the backlights somehow ‘burning’ stripes into the lcd. Simply swapping out the backlights probably wouldn’t fix it; is replacing the entire LCD assembly relatively easy? I seem to recall it coming out fairly easily when I replaced the hard drive. However, they’re not cheap; I seem to recall prices around $125 on eBay.
As far as the heat pipe is concerned, how hard it is it to find an appropriate thermal pad? I was hoping I could do it with paste, but it seems that's out. I may just go ahead and run the CPU fan into the ground with my fan control software. I found out that there's a Windows version that runs under BootCamp, making that decision easier. Bootcamp is preferred because I would like to run some older games on the nice big screen without the OS X performance penalty. Fortunately, the yellow stripes are really only visible on solid, light backgrounds and don't really affect gaming visuals. I've actually managed to get some recent OS X titles to run on this old beast, like Divinity: Original Sin and XCom. Thanks for the advice everyone. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
