Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / May 2005

G'day all,

I'll keep it short: iMac DV 450, over the past 12 hours goes from being
rock solid screen to jittery, tall/squat (like someone's twisting the
horizontal and vertical height buttons back and forth), and freezing
very shortly after boot.

From 'Google'ing, I figure some cables are lose, or a component on the
video/powerboard (the 'flyback transformer'?) has dry or otherwise heat
affected soldering.

Is this someting I can attempt to repair myself? I cannot afford a new
mac (unless the god of lotto is kind to my family this weekend) ... I've
done some crude soldering in my life in the past,

(I hope) I only need a virtual hand to guide me (and warn me of the
millions of ways I could kill the iMac or myself from playing with the
back of the CRT ...)

There's valuable data on this iMac compiled by my wife for my son's
disability (a transparent but true attempt to tug at your heartstrings
;), so I would like to thank you in advance for any help, assistance or
advice you can give ...

Mikey in Gippsland