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Does my iMac G3 have a chance?

  • It's time to upgrade.

    Votes: 3 60.0%
  • It has a chance, with some work & money.

    Votes: 2 40.0%

  • Total voters
    5

Derrick Velasco

macrumors regular
Original poster
Aug 17, 2008
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I keep seeing my poor iMac G3 Blueberry freezing for no reason, I have 512MB of ram, but I don't think I can max it, and if I did, the processor and hard drive and gonna die soon, but can anyone help me? It just freezes, and sometimes the screen will not wake when I move the mouse or touch the keyboard.

Here is the video I just uploaded, sorry it's bad quality but please help!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia7NpvcNO4Y

EDIT: I don't wanna loose her yet..
 
Don't mean to be a pessimist, but I went through three logic boards on one Blueberry. It used to get pretty hot, especially with a larger HDD in it and no fan. It got so I could open one up in minutes to get at the components. Went through two or three drives as well.
 
I have one that is doing the same thing, i was given it. It decides when it wants to put anything on the screen.

I dismantled to day, and cleaned the ram chips and ram cache with isopropyl alcohol. It is now firing up OK every time. I just have to fix the HDD issue
 
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