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Lines popping up all over the display

I've got the late 2006 White IMac Intel Core 2 Duo.
I've got these horrible lines coming up all the time. It was dealable for a while but I recently moved, and since then it had gotten much worse, and not very good performance. I just erased the hard drive to start fresh, I'm pretty much just using it for streaming videos and now it stalls constantly and the lines are getting worse. My guess is a bad logic board? Anyone got any other thoughts of what it could be or how I could test it?
Thank for any help

Intel MacPro, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on May 7, 2009 8:28 AM

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arnamy1 Author

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May 9, 2009 12:08 PM in response to arnamy1

smc fan control is my new best friend!!! Seems to have done the trick, thanks so much! I can cancel my appointment to take it in!!

May 9, 2009 1:04 PM in response to arnamy1

I'm glad it worked.

I was lucky that Apple didn't have the graphics card in stock that day so I had to take the computer home because otherwise I would have spent $400 or so on something unnecessary.

It is frustrating that a problem as prevalent as this isn't recognized by Apple. How difficult would it be for them to send out software that did the same thing -- or at least alerted their Geniuses and tech people as to the problem.

It seems to be hit and miss in terms of finding one's way to a thread which discusses it.

I am sure it's not a universal panacea but for the moment my computer has been line free since installation in April.

May 10, 2009 6:32 PM in response to arnamy1

try to have it serviced, it might need some thermal paste

Lines popping up all over the display