Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Apple bleg

I've been having a bit of 'puter trouble recently and wonder if our readers might be able to offer some advice or insight. I've got an Apple iMac G5 that's about two years old and has recently (i.e., within the last month or so) started to misbehave. The major problem is that it locks up when I "wake" it from the sleep mode. The screen turns white (or, sometimes, blue) often with a bunch of thin gray lines across the page. Sometimes the fan starts running full blast. The only way to get out of it--as far as I have been able to figure out--is to pull the plug and re-boot. Any idea what's going on?

I gather, based on a little googling, that there have been more problems with the G5s than one might guess from the usual Mac euphoria one encounters amongst the converted--problems with power supplies, fans, etc. Of course, there's also been lots of angst concerning the new version of iTunes, which has caused all sorts of problems. (One of our iPods went belly-up just after downloading the latest iTunes. Coincidence or conspiracy?) Does this seem like a hardware problem or a software problem?

Any thoughts would be welcome.

Posted by jwb at 3:40 PM   

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