imac screen

#1 Sat, 4 Jun 2005 - 10:25 MacNN

hi.

sometimes my imac makes a tick sound and the screen flickers. its not very frequent though. is that any thing to worry about.

BTW: im having a posting spree as i am at a police families day my dad took me to and i am in the ICT suite. dont do this at home cuz we got dial up and it costs bloody loads!!!!

cheers

#2 Sat, 4 Jun 2005 - 10:35 MacNN

CRT iMac? - my old DV400 used to do that and then one day the analogue board went. If it happened today I would not bother getting it repaired.

#3 Sat, 4 Jun 2005 - 10:46 MacNN

oh no!!! my mum dunt trust me buying old computers. i bought an old acorn and it stopped working with in 2 days. if this breaks soon, my mum will probably never let me buy a mac again!

how long was it doin that for?

#4 Sat, 4 Jun 2005 - 12:38 MacNN

If I remember correctly about 6 months and it was very occasional. I got it repaired and have had no trouble since then - you don't want to buy it do you?..............

#5 Sat, 4 Jun 2005 - 13:41 MacNN

Quote:

Originally Posted by kick52

hi.

sometimes my imac makes a tick sound and the screen flickers. its not very frequent though. is that any thing to worry about.

Or it could be the monitor degaussing itself. Seems to happen more frequent as the CRTs age.

#6 Wed, 8 Jun 2005 - 09:12 MacNN

what your mac?

#7 Wed, 8 Jun 2005 - 09:25 MacNN

Quote:

Originally Posted by kick52

what your mac?

It is an iMac DV 400 from Feb 2000 with 10GB drive and 512MB RAM, dual firewire etc.

#8 Wed, 8 Jun 2005 - 14:57 MacNN

Quote:

Originally Posted by Will C

If I remember correctly about 6 months and it was very occasional. I got it repaired and have had no trouble since then - you don't want to buy it do you?..............

sorry, i didnt mean what is your mac, i meant "What do i wanna buy your mac or the analogue board?", cuz you said "you don't want to buy it do you?"

#9 Wed, 8 Jun 2005 - 15:31 MacNN

Quote:

Originally Posted by kick52

sorry, i didnt mean what is your mac, i meant "What do i wanna buy your mac or the analogue board?", cuz you said "you don't want to buy it do you?"

Sorry - I meant the whole machine as it complete and working - but it was a bit of a cheeky question as you and I are both in the UK and I thought you might want a replacement machine.

#10 Thu, 9 Jun 2005 - 14:09 MacNN

no thanks. ill think ill get an eMac as my new machine.

"Or it could be the monitor degaussing itself. Seems to happen more frequent as the CRTs age." - i dont think so. its more of a "tick" than a "dwoomph"

#11 Thu, 9 Jun 2005 - 14:47 MacNN

how are you suppose to clean the imac screens???

#12 Thu, 9 Jun 2005 - 15:38 MacNN

how do you mean clean?

#13 Sat, 25 Jun 2005 - 04:15 MacNN

UPDATE:

I have resized the screen and it hasnt done it once. (apart from when I switched to 1024x768, but then i switched back.)
i have got it working a lot more faster & smoother and it hasnt frooze once apart from when i edited a program... i got it like this by increasing the disk cache size from 10mb to 70mb. big improvement.

thanks for all your replies.