Hi

I bought this machine one month ago

When I start the iMac, Osx2 often freeze at starting time. I reinstalled
osx 2 and it didn't cure the problem.

Often, the application (word etc ) quit and the screen becomes darker.
there's also a window asking me to restart the machine.

Sometimes I know when i will have some problems with the iMac. The first
things I see are weird little lines on the screen . Sometimes these lines
goes worse and the imac is crashing soon after that.

I tried an old HD i had and it didn't cure the problem.

How can I be sure to make a good diagnostic of this problem ?

Ram problem ? main board problem ? Virus?

Please help

Marc Legare

Try your "Hardware Test" cd first (boot up with it in the drive as a start
up disk) and see you have a video card problem within the machine. Hopefully
not, but it might be a hardware issue.

I bought one of the first iMac G4/700's and it had a problem with the
motherboard (had to get a new one, under warranty) and then the RAM chip
started getting errors.

Nathaniel


Kind Regards,
Nathaniel
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in article BC062BAE.3137%mlegarxe@iqdho.com, MLEGARE at mlegarxe@iqdho.com
wrote on 12/17/03 12:50 PM:

> Hi
>
> I bought this machine one month ago
>
> When I start the iMac, Osx2 often freeze at starting time. I reinstalled
> osx 2 and it didn't cure the problem.
>
> Often, the application (word etc ) quit and the screen becomes darker.
> there's also a window asking me to restart the machine.
>
> Sometimes I know when i will have some problems with the iMac. The first
> things I see are weird little lines on the screen . Sometimes these lines
> goes worse and the imac is crashing soon after that.
>
> I tried an old HD i had and it didn't cure the problem.
>
> How can I be sure to make a good diagnostic of this problem ?
>
> Ram problem ? main board problem ? Virus?
>
> Please help
>
> Marc Legare
>

On 12/17/03 3:50 PM, in article BC062BAE.3137%mlegarxe@iqdho.com, "MLEGARE"
<mlegarxe@iqdho.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I bought this machine one month ago
>
> When I start the iMac, Osx2 often freeze at starting time. I reinstalled
> osx 2 and it didn't cure the problem.
>
> Often, the application (word etc ) quit and the screen becomes darker.
> there's also a window asking me to restart the machine.
>
> Sometimes I know when i will have some problems with the iMac. The first
> things I see are weird little lines on the screen . Sometimes these lines
> goes worse and the imac is crashing soon after that.
>
> I tried an old HD i had and it didn't cure the problem.
>
> How can I be sure to make a good diagnostic of this problem ?
>
> Ram problem ? main board problem ? Virus?
>
> Please help
>
> Marc Legare
>

I would suspect a bad memory SIMM.

- mike

Sent using the Entourage X Test Drive.

in article BC4C4C7C.46D9%mpender********.com, M. Pender at
mpender********.com wrote on 2/8/04 5:28 PM:

> On 12/17/03 3:50 PM, in article BC062BAE.3137%mlegarxe@iqdho.com, "MLEGARE"
> <mlegarxe@iqdho.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I bought this machine one month ago
>>
>> When I start the iMac, Osx2 often freeze at starting time. I reinstalled
>> osx 2 and it didn't cure the problem.
>>
>> Often, the application (word etc ) quit and the screen becomes darker.
>> there's also a window asking me to restart the machine.
>>
>> Sometimes I know when i will have some problems with the iMac. The first
>> things I see are weird little lines on the screen . Sometimes these lines
>> goes worse and the imac is crashing soon after that.
>>
>> I tried an old HD i had and it didn't cure the problem.
>>
>> How can I be sure to make a good diagnostic of this problem ?
>>
>> Ram problem ? main board problem ? Virus?
>>
>> Please help
>>
>> Marc Legare
>>
>
> I would suspect a bad memory SIMM.
>
> - mike
>
> Sent using the Entourage X Test Drive.
>

These computers seem pretty notorious for this RAM problem. My iMac G4/700
15" would start up in OS 9 and say "A RAM problem has been detected" every
time I started up.


Kind Regards,
Nathaniel
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