NEW iMac 24" is BROKEN!!!

[zepharus]

Im about to get very very very upset! I was playing WoW when I heard a pop and then the iMac froze. I held in the power button to reset it and was greeted with



BEEP.........BEEP........BEEP In a repeating 3 Tone intervals!


Im BEYOND PISSED right now! I am assuming this this is Dead but any wisdom would help. Of course its a BTO also! I am very quickly losing faith is Apple, as every single product of theirs ive owned in the last 2 years has needed repair or replacement..

 

[kabunaru]

Do you have the iMac with the 8800GS (which is an actually 8800M GTS)?
If so, take a look at this:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/nvidia-says-significant-quantities-of-laptop-gpus-are-defectiv/

 

[gehrbox]

Im about to get very very very upset! I was playing WoW when I heard a pop and then the iMac froze. I held in the power button to reset it and was greeted with



BEEP.........BEEP........BEEP In a repeating 3 Tone intervals!

3 beeps indicates a memory problem. Reseat the memory and try a reboot. Otherwise call Apple.

 

[Muncher]

3 beeps indicates a memory problem. Reseat the memory and try a reboot. Otherwise call Apple.

gehrbox is right. Maybe you could nudge apple into giving some extra memory for this problem 😉.

 

[zepharus]

3 beeps indicates a memory problem. Reseat the memory and try a reboot. Otherwise call Apple.

Eh K, I reseated the Ram same issue... I swapped banks and the problems seems solved. Got to love computers.. thanks guys

 

[Jurwin]

Time for a dell? 😀

 

[RNSheets]

Time for a dell? 😀

What's a dell? 😛

 

[Imac wizard]

Time for a dell? 😀

Bite your tongue

 

[nusynergy]

Time for a dell? 😀

Blasphemy!!!😱

 

[Jurwin]

Funny my 5 year old dell never had a problem yet my imac gave me headaches daily, got rid of that POS and now I use a new MBP, so far so good.

 

[SaSaSushi]

Funny my 5 year old dell never had a problem yet my imac gave me headaches daily,

Please, by all means do elaborate.

I'm on my second iMac and have nothing but praise for them. Unless I decide to go for a Mac Pro the next time around I'm fairly sure I will get another iMac as well.

Maybe the iMac wasn't the problem. 😉

 

[D4F]

Funny my 5 year old dell never had a problem yet my imac gave me headaches daily, got rid of that POS and now I use a new MBP, so far so good.

That is funny indeed 😀😀
It sucks to be in a minority I guess...