Thank you everyone. That gives me quite a few things to work on during this stormy day. I think it might be a couple of days before I can report back from the various things to try, but I will do them all and see what happens.
Don't get blown away - at least not literally! Regards, Jennifer On 28 November 2012 10:33, Rick Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jennifer, > I not sure if this helps, but I have seen some iMac screen panels for sale > on eBay and could understand why someone would be selling these (just the > screen panels). Perhaps, it may be cheaper to buy the panel from eBay and > get the wizard technician to replace it. I think a replacement panel from > Apple may be exorbitant. > On 28/11/2012, at 9:58 AM, Jennifer Lefroy wrote: > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > Recently we had screen freezes on our iMac Version 10.6.8 running Snow > > Leopard. A wizard technician sorted that and it was fine for a short > > time. Now it has shown a frozen bluey grey screen on start up this > morning > > (normal one after being powered off), froze again yesterday, has shown on > > one occasion on start up a full transitory white screen with small > > rectangular dashes and there have been a couple of occasions when, on > > opening an application, a small version of this white widow with dashes > has > > appeared very briefly. I repair permissions after updating. > > > > The multi coloured wheel also seems to appear more frequently. > > > > Should we be thinking of more technical help or are we heading towards > > replacement? The computer is 5 years old, but when working well, does > > everything we need and so we have no wish to upgrade unless our present > one > > is a hopeless cause. > > > > My apologies if I am asking an impossible question. > > Regards, > > Jennifer > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: > http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121128/f59b67fa/attachment.htm > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > > Settings & Unsubscribe - < > http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - < > http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121128/fca4f04e/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
