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shujin

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Hello

I have been experiencing some unusual problems with my imac. While on the internet today my computer crashed on me twice, the first time the screen just showed a bunch of vertical lines, the second it flashed some random colors then went black. After the screen change the computer was unresponsive. I have a bad feeling, is it due to overheating, a bad logic board or something else. This is the first time I have ever experienced this on a mac. Has anyone had any simiar issues? Or am I up **** creek? I can't really afford a new computer seeing that I just bought an iPad (it comes Saturday). I am not sure if my computer is still under apple care and even if it was I won't get it back by the time I have to go back to college. I attached a screen shot of my computer temps.
 

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It happened to me again. This time I snagged a picture of it. Hopefully some one has an answer.
 

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Have you had any luck finding out what was wrong or how to replicate this problem? I've been having the same thing happen lately on my 24" 2008 iMac.
 
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