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madeirabhoy

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Oct 26, 2012
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my iMac is surprisingly only just over 2 years old, as i bought it ex display from FNAC.

just in the last 3 weeks, the screen keeps going black for half a second. its happening more often now than before. I'm trying to see if its a software issue but not getting anywhere.

if it gets worse then i guess the graphics card could be failing, which might not be a bad thing. my serial number is one of these covered by the iMac 17" AMD radeon 6970M video card replacement program. the only thing is i live on a wee island so my mac would probably need to go away for a month (it was a month even when my mouse broke)

For anyone who had this problem, was this how it started?
 
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