J's iMac died at work.
It has the symptoms of the CMOS battery being dead, or the graphics card failing. (She was able to order a faster replacement.)
She's still holding on to the dead one. Trouble is, getting at either the battery or graphics card basically means disassembling the whole thing. So, it's been on the "I'll get to it when I finish the other 30 things on my list" list.
Computers are pretty deterministic, at least on boot-up. If they can't get through that, then it's usually the CMOS battery, graphics card, and very rarely something else hardware wise. IME.
Cheers,
Scott.
She's still holding on to the dead one. Trouble is, getting at either the battery or graphics card basically means disassembling the whole thing. So, it's been on the "I'll get to it when I finish the other 30 things on my list" list.
Computers are pretty deterministic, at least on boot-up. If they can't get through that, then it's usually the CMOS battery, graphics card, and very rarely something else hardware wise. IME.
Cheers,
Scott.
