imac freezes/screen dosen't work?

[trailofdan]

Hi

I've got a major problem with my old 20" apple mac 2ghz (this is not a intel machine). This is my main machine. Can you guys help me?

I switched it on and everything seemed fine then the machine froze on me-so I switched it off by holding down the power button and re-started the imac but nothing appeared on the screen-it remained black and it sounded like the fans were working too fast-they sounded a lot louder than normal. So I switched it off again. I've just turned it back on and everything seemed fine but it froze again!

Does anyone know whats going on with it or how I can fix it. I have the latest version of Leopard installed on it.

Many thanks
Dan

 

[MTI]

Do a search using the term "capacitors" . . . you probably have one or more on the logic board and/or power supply that have failed from the legendary industrial espionage snafu of the early 21st Century.

 

[JustGretchen]

a trip to your local apple store is in order. www.apple.com/retail to find it and make an appointment!

I hope you might have AppleCare on the machine still, it could be quite costly if it requires a Logic Board, or power inverter replacement. Possibly worth buying a new machine for the cost of what they will charge to fix it.

Moral here, is if you didn't buy applecare, buy it.

 

[Sun Baked]

Or the HD died ...

 

[raziel777]

Do you have an external drive you can try booting up from?
This would help you determine if it's the internal drive.