The story so far: last Monday my iMac G5 started freezing, and although it initially seemed like a software problem – not too serious – after a call to AppleCare, on Tuesday it wouldn’t start up at all and was exhibiting exactly the same symptoms as the previous two times. So, another long call to AppleCare and TNT arrived to ship it down to Amsys, Apple’s contracted service provider. On Wednesday, Mark called from Amsys: it was working fine, even after several restarts. Fantastic.
The iMac got left “on test” over the rest of the week and through the weekend. I called Amsys this afternoon and agreed that they may as well ship it back to me, if they couldn’t find anything wrong with it.
Half an hour later Mark calls me back: one last start-up to gather some system information and – guess what? – it’s dead again. And, surprise-surprise, it’s the logic board! A replacement is on order (why don’t they have spares – it’s the faulty part) so that’s another couple of days, plus another for transport: hopefully I’ll be back to full power by the end of the week. Hopefully.
Still, I was a single failed restart away from getting my bugger-up old logic board back. Thankfully I’ll be getting one of those shiny new ones which can’t possibly go wrong. Just like the last two times.
