[G4] Help needed

[richard joseph]

>From: Kristen <kriss at pobox.mtaonline.net>
>Reply-To: kriss at pobox.mtaonline.net,"A place to discuss Apple's G4 
>computers." <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." 
><g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>Subject: Re: [G4] Help needed
>Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:38:46 -0800
>
>Hi Ricie,
>
>	If it's a help, my friend has a G3 laptop which did the same thing. The
>bottom of the laptop also was found to be hotter then normal. By sending it
>in for repair we found that this was a known video card problem for his
>model. They replaced his video and it has worked great ever since. I see 
>you
>have a G4 so I can't say if this is the same problem or not. I think I
>remember that this was listed on the apple site with modles afflicted.
>See here:
>
>http://www.apple.com/support/ibook/faq/
>
>
>On Sun October 22 2006 9:19 pm, richard joseph wrote:
> > Hi all.
> > Hope you can offer any usable advice to this problem.
> > I have an iBook G4 1.2 GHz (12 inch display) running Tiger. Problem is, 
>the
> > display suddenly got these vertical coloured lines and I can't see my
> > desktop properly. I tried resetting the pram, but no luck. The machine 
>was
> > working fine before this problem. Anyone out there ever encountered 
>this,
> > and if so, what was the problem?
> > Thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions.
> >
> > Richie.
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Thanks for the info.I will send it to an authorised Apple shop to be 
checked.

Richie

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