I have an Imac G4 1Ghz and whenever I turn it on, it will load up, and then the mouse will freeze up and the keyboard has no effect. Any suggestions?
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Hi guys, I need your help again.
I have this iMac from a customer that shut down during a storm along with all the other devices in the house. In particular, the router, connected via Ethernet to the iMac, caught fire.
When I removed the screen from the iMac to check the status of the LEDs, I noticed that none of them were lit. I had a perfectly compatible and working power supply, so I tried it right away, but the problem remained the same (no LEDs). With the thermal camera, I noticed only a slight warming (32 degrees) of the NCP1605BG chip on the power supply. The rest was completely... -
iMac turns on no drops no cracks, tried to DFU Restore the iMac, logo turns on great! however iMac turns itself off and then restarts to the (!) icon and won't post the restore. Tried thunderbolt 3 cable, tried regular USB C cable and nothing.
this is the message it gives me with the error
Unexpected device state 'DFU' expected 'RestoreOS' (Probably forced into DFU mode externally) [com.apple.MobileDevice.MobileRestore – 0xFAE (4014)].
Any thoughts what this could be? I will open it up and repair it but I am not 100% sure since this iMac doesn't... -
Customer came in for data recovery, came to find out data is soldered on to this iMac (learn something new everyday) this is a 2020 T2 iMac so I was surprised because the iMac Pro has a T2 chip and it isn’t soldered on. Anyways, the iMac boots to Apple logo and then restarts, before it turns off you hear a quarter fan spin then it repeats itself. I decided to do a DFU revive to restore any hardware firmware issues and it was successful in reviving the device however the issue persists in boot looping. It shows the Apple logo for like 40 seconds then turns off and fan spin rinse repeat. I...
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hi guys I have the above iMac
and im trying to figure out where there is a short on a logic board / motherboard.
I have narrowed the area down to the highlighted sections in the attached photo's but I have no idea where to start or what to remove first to try and see if the fault goes ?
there is a short on all the caps in the area both sides of them
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we've got iMac Pro 2017 which having a problem with SSD, iMac come with 2 SSD's 1TB, it was having a problem with the SSD so we get the replacement, installed in and iMac is stuck in recovery mode, tried to restore it & revive, nothing worked - error 4010. After installing old drives now we're having the same problem that the device is in recovery mode. Previously after swap of the SSD iMac worked on the old SSD however after attempt of revive on the new SSD machine stuck in recovery mode, I can go to DFU but the same result with error 4010.
Any ideas what might've...