Corrupted icons and OSX video playback

gyroscope · Post by **gyroscope** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 3:54 pm

Hi jg501

Thanks for that; although the webaddress seems to be taken off; is this a safe process, do you know, or might it cause further problems down the line

bn · Post by bn » Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:10 pm

hi gyroscope,

try that url without the trailing dot after php
http://felipecruz.com/g5-freeze-ups-problem.php

sorry to hear that your Mac is giving you trouble.

regards
bernd

gyroscope · Post by **gyroscope** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:02 pm

That worked, thank you Bernd.

sorry to hear that your Mac is giving you trouble.

I'm seriously considering buying a new mac within a month now...

gyroscope · Post by **gyroscope** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:01 pm

Well, I got so fed up with my Mac (it's now switching itself off every twenty minutes and takes half an hour before it'll switch on again, + its other problems) that I've taken the plunge and bought a six month old Imac from ebay, for interest.

So I've joined the Intel crowd + first time using Leopard for me (better late than never); no looking back now...

At least I can run my apps (when I finish one...) using Parallels or similat to test out the apps on Windows...

Does anyone recommend Parallels or do people swear by other emulators, I wonder? Is there a Windows emulator whereby you don't need a copy of Windows, does anyone know please? (I'm sure I saw this on the web a while back but can't find it now...)

Martin Koob · Post by **Martin Koob** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:19 pm

Hi.

I just started experiencing the same problem on my iMac G5. In one of my searches I found a post that points to faulty capacitors in the video card as a problem.

http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/i ... 02724.html

This is not the first hardware problem I have had with my iMac G5. I recently had to replace the power supply. The iMac just would not power up. Press the power button and nothing. I found an article which points the blame at faulty capacitors.

http://jimwarholic.com/2008/11/apple-im ... es-and.php

I took it in for repairs and they replaced the power supply.

It seems this was a known issue and Apple did have a warrantee extension for this which expired in December 2008.

http://www.apple.com/support/imac/repai ... onprogram/

Gyroscope mentioned putting pressure on Apple. Has anyone contacted Apple about a fix for this?

Martin