The universe decides to balance the scales again — the same week I got my new MacBook Pro, the screen on my old iMac (that I was still using the create my wireless network among other things) went dark. Since the 3-year warranty has expired, and with this Apple support discussion thread suggesting that the problem would be pricey to fix (and with no money to do that right now), I’m pretty much left with no choice but to store it for now. I am rather lucky that it happened after getting the new laptop though, so I shouldn’t complain too much I guess.
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I had the same problem with a pismo powerbook. screen died, although it was after like what 6 years? so I couldn’t complain much, but it turned out that to even pull a screen from a different dead laptop off ebay and put it on mine was impossible to do. apparently lcd screens have special non-standardized interfaces, hence a dell laptop screen won’t work a mac and even most macs won’t worth on other macs. it kinda sucks. u could try hooking up your imac to a normal screen and using it from there. there should be a monitor cable port on the back.
Even plugging it to an external screen means I’d have to buy (I don’t have one laying around). But also, it would take up too much space.
Can’t you keep it running as a server anyway without a monitor, since that was now its main use?
Yeah, that’s what I’m doing now. But if something happens, I can’t really access the computer to fix it, when printing, I can’t access the software if I need to fix page flow, I can’t sync my iPod…
You could use remote desktop and access the iMac like that.
First you would need to get a screen to install it though…
Oh, I hadn’t thought of that. But yeah, installing it is the problem. I’ve decided to buy an Airport Express to sold my wireless network and printer sharing problem.
Airport Express is wonderful, i remember buying it when it first was released. But unfortunatly you will need to know these things
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>Soft reset: just press the reset button for one second
>Hard reset: press the reset button for five seconds
Restore to factory defaults: switch off Airport Express. Press the reset button. Turn on the Airport Express while keeping the reset button pressed. After about 10 seconds, the LED on the Airport Express will blink four times. Release the reset button and wait for 90 seconds.
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I hope this saves you time in the future when you have to trouble shoot.
btw. love the new green flavour, just i have been seeing as spring hits berlin. although i miss sakura
Thanks for the tip. I’m pretty happy with it after one day of use, and it seems to be working with no problems. Haven’t tried the Airtunes feature yet, but I imagine that I’ll probably end up buying some speakers sometime this year for use in our living room.
hey jean
i had the same problem. apple will fix it for u even if the warranty is expired. maybe takes a bit of convincing the guy at the genius bar. but rule of thumb is this: if u can plug it into an external monitor and it works, then the repair is free. worth a try.
Really? Man, I’ll have to get in contact with them and see if I can get it fixed then.