Hi, so today i got a 24" Al iMac, Mid- 2008 model, and i'v had a few problems with it. First of all when i first booted it and played around with finder (as in looked at the apps etc) then it froze, and the screen showed some black and a few colours and the finder window wasnt moving, but my mouse was. so i tried to relanch finder. but nothing happend. so i restarted the imac by holding down the power button. This is pretty much what it was doing for the first few hours I had it. You lanched an app then it works good for about 5 minutes then the mac gliches, and I have to restart it.
After i manged to update the software ( latest itunes/ mac os x 10.6.3 ect) , hit the F12 key and whent to dashboard, it froze then i did restarted the mac. but instead it gave me a bunch of vertical lines on the screen during the boot up (showing the apple logo), then it went to the desktop, but the whole screen was very bad. All the colours were not what they were sopposed to be, and it was frozen. so i restared it again, it still gave me the verticle lines and then... a kernel panic. i restared again, same thing. kernal panic.
So my question is is this a video card/ logic board problem? or is it a mac os x problem?
The specs are: 3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo
2 gb ram
500 gb hdd
nvidia geforce 8800 gs 512mb gddr3 sdram
10.6.3 snow leopard.
**I got a new iMac as a replacement from apple. Thanks Apple!
**
After i manged to update the software ( latest itunes/ mac os x 10.6.3 ect) , hit the F12 key and whent to dashboard, it froze then i did restarted the mac. but instead it gave me a bunch of vertical lines on the screen during the boot up (showing the apple logo), then it went to the desktop, but the whole screen was very bad. All the colours were not what they were sopposed to be, and it was frozen. so i restared it again, it still gave me the verticle lines and then... a kernel panic. i restared again, same thing. kernal panic.
So my question is is this a video card/ logic board problem? or is it a mac os x problem?
The specs are: 3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo
2 gb ram
500 gb hdd
nvidia geforce 8800 gs 512mb gddr3 sdram
10.6.3 snow leopard.
**I got a new iMac as a replacement from apple. Thanks Apple!
**
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