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Now WHAT!!!! (iMac G5 needs major repair)

CanadaRAM said:
Before you panic -- the white iMac G5s were prone to a power supply failure problem and Apple had an extended warranty programme for some of them. If your particular Apple place can't tell you more about it, then take it to an independent Apple Authorized service place for an estimate and ask them.
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This is the most sensible thing to follow up on. Our iMac G5 (first generation) had the power supply crap out twice. It's on the third one. Symptoms are any of the following:

1. You come back after a while and find the computer off when you know you left it on.
2. Shuts off by itself with no warning for no apparent reason while using it
3. #1 and 2 start happening at more frequent intervals
4. Shuts off and never turns back on

There may or may not be an acrid electronic smell or smoke coming from the computer vents. On both occasions we actually heard a cap burst in the iMac G5 about a day or two before the problems started happening. We had no smells or smoking, but apple fixed the first one at 13-14 months, and the second when it was around 3 years old. It was eligible for the extended PS repair program.
 
earnjam said:
Agreed, but when you've just lost all of your data, you're going to be pissed off and say a lot of things you don't mean...
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And that's wrong.
Just shows how people think. No objectivity at all. And it does make you look retarded. Simple fact.
 
I've been in your shoes and it sucks. You might look into this place-- it's the cheapest I found for logic board repair, and I went there in person and believe them to be reputable:

http://www.dttservice.com/imacg5.html

Note that their prices are based on being able to recycle your logic board. In my case, the board itself (not just the capacitors) was damaged so they couldn't recycle it, meaning they couldn't replace my board for those prices. So my iMac was toast and I ended up selling it for parts (the monitor, basically) on Craigslist for $300.

It's fiendishly diabolical how Apple had made Applecare absolutely mandatory. It basically adds another 10+% to the cost of a Mac, which subsidizes all their warranty-covered repair costs. So they can keep pushing the design envelope, knowing that there will be problems, and these problems are the best advertisement for Applecare.

Bear in mind that I love Macs and would never go back. But PC repairs are so much easier and cheaper, which makes the extended warranty unnecessary in most cases.
 
Wrong because I bought an iMac in July of 2005 and they offered the apple care. A closer investigation would have shown you that.

And don't be upset at apple because the parts in there are made by companies like intel, ati, seagate and many others. Apple just selects which ones to use.

Apple won't trade it in buy you can take out the hard drive and send it in to apple so they can recycle it. Buy a reverb. And an external hard drive case and drag over the content you need. Then erase the old hd and use it as a back up.:apple:
 
Battlefield Fan,

While it's true that Apple buys parts from the usual suspects, the issue for some people is the way a logic board failure can turn your machine into an expensive paperweight. That's a design flaw in my book, driven, imho, by the incessant need to go thinner instead of better.

OP, they may be able to copy your hard drive to another drive. Depends of course on how long they're able to run your iMac before it shuts down. In my case, after sitting overnight, it was cool enough to run for several minutes before shutting down. At the Apple Store they charged me $79 for both the initial diagnosis and the data transfer.
 
Chill out y'all

This is a forum for people to come and talk to other mac users, and get help/advice or just talk. Not get called idiots. How many times do you not get the extended warranty? I only get it from apple. I've never bought any extended warranty from Best Buy or Comp USA or anything. Usually your spending so much on a new computer, you don't wan to spend one cent extra. A lot of the times it won't matter anyways, and you'll be fine.

It's always a good idea to buy extended warranties for computers, but just because you don't, does not mean you're an idiot. You simple say "Sorry, that stinks, next time buy the extended warranty, and they'll just replace your logic board for free...if anything even goes wrong.

With that said, if you didn't get the extended warranty, and aren't under any special circumstances due to your particular model, then you're kind of out of luck. Your best bet is to try and trade it in for a referb model..or if that doens't work, just get a referb intel (that will be faster than your g5) and get the extended warranty this time.

... as for the data on your machine, you can probably retrieve it. The hard drive is probably not dead, and even if it is, there are places that specialize in obtaining data off corrupt drives. In the future, just back up your files/document/pictures/etc....on any computer, anywhere, that is a very important step ... I guess you have to learn some how. Good luck.
 
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