Hi everyone,
In 2006 I got the white imac in my signature. Anyway, it has been in pretty constant use since and tonight i was watching a youtube video and then all of a sudden, these green distorted lines appeared. At first i thought it was just the video so i pressed Esc but nothing happened. I had the spinning beachball and OSX would not re-appear after exiting the video.
I rebooted and these lines were still there, reset the PRAM to no effect, turned off the power... no effect.
I had 2gb of RAM, nvidia 7600gt graphics, 750gb of internal memory and everything else, if this helps.
Basically, would anyone know if this computer is officially dead? I am not covered any more as this applecare expired in oct 09, and at the time I couldn't afford it. Big mistake I now know...
Your help would be very much appreciated. Tomorrow I'm going to look at repair costs, but I get the feeling it will not be worthwhile. If necessary, I'm going to look at the 21.5 inch or 27 inch iMac as I am used to the nice screen size.
Apologies for the verbal diarrhoea. Cheers, Joe...
In 2006 I got the white imac in my signature. Anyway, it has been in pretty constant use since and tonight i was watching a youtube video and then all of a sudden, these green distorted lines appeared. At first i thought it was just the video so i pressed Esc but nothing happened. I had the spinning beachball and OSX would not re-appear after exiting the video.
I rebooted and these lines were still there, reset the PRAM to no effect, turned off the power... no effect.
I had 2gb of RAM, nvidia 7600gt graphics, 750gb of internal memory and everything else, if this helps.
Basically, would anyone know if this computer is officially dead? I am not covered any more as this applecare expired in oct 09, and at the time I couldn't afford it. Big mistake I now know...
Your help would be very much appreciated. Tomorrow I'm going to look at repair costs, but I get the feeling it will not be worthwhile. If necessary, I'm going to look at the 21.5 inch or 27 inch iMac as I am used to the nice screen size.
Apologies for the verbal diarrhoea. Cheers, Joe...