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- Corvo20
Well if the mac chime is equal pc beep (as notelube said in a note) and then no worky, but drives are up since the led is up... looks like you can restrict your search to some component's failure in the motherboard. So unless you have spare components around, you def. need to go to the shop.
- NONEIS0
Open the side panel, and shine a flashlight on the video card. See the facing the front of the computer? If it looks dusty at all, get a Qutip and run it along that grill, mine clogs up into a solid wall preventing air from getting to/from the GPU, I have to do this once every 4-5 months.
- Corvo20
Don't worry. Maybe it's not some expensive component as the logic board, but just the power unit. Most computers do this when the AC unit is going away.
What you're describing looks exactly like what happens to a PC when the AC unit is about to pass. It still works but, as some circuits do not have power enough, the whole machine just stands still.
- benfal990
Someone told me it could be the lil' battery on the motherboard that it dead. What do you think? Is it possible that the battery went dead after only 1 year and a half ? And, is it possible that a dead battery on the motherboad cause what i got as a problem?
- Horp0
The bigger Apple become, the shittier their products are. My tower died on Monday.. I bought it in February. As I sat in the shop watching the Apple technician checking it out all I saw and heard from the front desk was " I bought this and its broken", "I brought this and it doesn't work"... "This has been back to Aplle three times and now its gone again"
It was, frankly, alarming to see just how many products were coming back faulty in the space of two hours.
Apple probably don't think this is an issue, and many people, like I did, have urgent deadlines that mean they have to buy another computer to keep working while the bust one gets diagnosed.
But this will come back on Apple soon enough I reckon. The amount of faulty product they're pushing is going to burn their reputation to the ground, and reputation is all that separates Apple from PCs. As the Apple technician said to me yesterday "People don't realise that nowadays Apple are just boxes with other companies's components dropped in"... yeah, like PCs, only PCs are a 1/4 of the price.
- benfal990
yeah, the only + for Apple is OSX, not the physical computer. What are they waiting for to sell OSX for all computers?
- benfal990
for the price i paid my Mac Pro tower, i would have got a mastodon PC.
But its not a good time to buy a PC now... Windows XP is too old for the new component, Vista is already dead ans Windows7 not available.
- benfal990
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--------------------------------...I know you are all on the idle. Just for your info, the problem is my graphic card... she's dead.
how the hell after 1 year and 5 months?
I dont fn know!