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My eMac mysteriously didn't switch on today. It was off and I pressed the power button, nothing.

I tried googling it and alot of people seem to have this issue, which is solved by resetting the PMU and PRAM which I have done and still nothing. Nothing will switch on, I also tried unplugging everything for 15+ minutes in hopes that might work. Still nothing, literally no response.

Can't really contact apple since it's way out of warranty (and the mac isn't mine, got it from college)

Any ideas?

Anybody????

Get a PC.








In all seriousness my guess is the Apple equivalent of the PSU has failed, so see if it's possible to get a new one, although you may want to test another one before buying as my Mac experience is limited, eMacs even more so. Although thinking about it the mainboard (Logic board in Apple speak) could have bit the dust.


If not, whack your serial number in here and see if Apple will do a paid-for repair. Although if it comes to that I'd just get a new PC tbh.

Yea can't really afford a new PC until September (uni money woooooo)

Well I can try apple, it's got all my music and sound design stuff on it, I will cry if I can't get that stuff back, plus the thing weighs a ton! So taking it to the repair centre is a bit questionable....*sigh* stupid eMac....

Ah k.


I think the eMac uses a standard IDE connection for hard drives (source) so hopefully it should be easy to get the files back that you need, however that may require a form of Linux (Ubuntu or even OSX) due to the filesystem used on OSX.

Yeah, pain in the but to carry I should imagine, no home repair companies local?

Well just checked and it costs quiet alot since my particular model is obsoluete and no longer supported by apple....I just might find a way to take it to a store and get the mos important files out of it...it's gonna be like 80gbs of stuff tho, 1 of my projects is 10.15gb in size.....

Sucky

Ok some break through....

Today i decided to fix my mac the russian way...i hit it as hard as i could without denting it.

I hit power button and it turned on, and it went to the home page...and onto firefox and i done some testing...

but then the screen starting shrinking and blinking and acting very very very weird and popping back to its normal place..........maybe this means i have a graphic card issue which was causing this whole problem to begin with???

Haha, I like your thinking!


It could just be the display, is it at all possible to connect an external? And quickly get the files off of it that you need before it does it again.

Well, you could do it New York style, smash it open, grab the HD (use in your future PC) and leave the corpse on the street. In fact, this is my standard operating procedure for fixing Macs.

Well i could throw it out the window and salvage the pieces...

some further testing later and even more as mysterious as it happened the problem went away. I have only tested the mac twice, turned it on - went on youtube played a video....turned it off, turned it on came on here and typed this.

The weird screen changing resolutions and geometries has stopped....

I dont even know anymore this was just too weird....

If anything, maybe your drivers for your built in graphics card is bad (or the card itself is bad). If you really need your data, take it apart and stuff it (your HD) into another computer with the same HD interface (IDE/SATA) and it should boot right into OSX, if it the only one has one HD plugged in. Then grab your data and put in something more reliable like a Windows PC. (lol i wasn't paid either)

Another thing that might be going bad is the monitor itself but the fact that you get artifacts on the screen proves wither your drivers are corrupt or the chip is damaged. I was going to say that the caibrator for the particle accelerator could be broken. (LOL)