I have an imac that's about 4 years old. It has Tiger on it. Today, the screen turned pinkish purple and became pixelated. I rebooted it and it wouldn't get past the blue screen. I started it in safe mode and, while I did get past the blue screen, the desktop was all distorted and like a checkerboard.
Here's an image: http://img9.imageshack.us/i/photogun.jpg…
I tried running disk utility but there wasn't a problem.
I am now reinstalling Tiger and I'm seeing the checkerboard/pixelation on the installation screen so it's not the operating system. (which sucks for me since I lost everything that was on my computer now).
I called a repair center that my employer uses and, while I didn't talk to the mac specialist, the PC specialist said it sounds like the video card.
Does anyone know how much this usually costs? The guy at the repair center said $5 or $10 but then he's not the mac specialist.
I'm wondering if my computer is salvageable. It's not that old and it was expensive.|||u r sure its the graphic card but not the monitor, both can be ended up with problems. the things is that if u really want to replace a video card, make sure that it is compatible with quartz extreme, otherwise its no point.
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