He just can't help himself! — #27

Post #27 by equill

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Hardware
Post Date	Mon, 10 Aug 2009 - 19:01
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/he-just-cant-help-himself.14609/

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It has been exhibiting some worrying symptoms. The screen occasionally flicks off for a fraction of a second, with a click sound like it's regaussing. It's also spontaneously switched off a few times - in fact it did it just now when I was writing this post. Each time it starts up again fine when I hit the power button. Sometimes, the power button stays lit, and once the external monitor continued to show a scrambled screen, even thought the iMac itself seemed to be dead …

In my experience of four 500MHz iMacs (two Indigo and two Snow, from 2001, 2002 and 2000 respectively), this is a common phenomenon with the soft-silicone-clad multicolour cables. The cladding flows readily enough, especially when warm, to allow random misfit between mains-cable socket and the iMac's recessed plug. Solution? Replace the misfit with a cable bearing a conventional almost-rigid IEC C13 socket at the iMac end.

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