Apple late Thursday quietly launched a new Repair Extension Program addressing video and power issues related to the iMac G5. Faulty power capacitors and other hardware issues have plagued many iMac G5 owners who have frequently filled up Apple's support discussions complaining about the issue.
The Repair Extension Program applies to first-generation iMac G5 systems "that have video or power-related issues as a result of a specific component failure." Symptoms that the Repair Extension cover are scrambled or distorted video, no video, and no power. The models affected were sold from September 2004 to June 2005 with both 17-inch and 20-inch displays and 1.6GHz and 1.8GHz processors.
View: Apple's iMac G5 Repair Extension Website
News source: ThinkSecret
The Repair Extension Program applies to first-generation iMac G5 systems "that have video or power-related issues as a result of a specific component failure." Symptoms that the Repair Extension cover are scrambled or distorted video, no video, and no power. The models affected were sold from September 2004 to June 2005 with both 17-inch and 20-inch displays and 1.6GHz and 1.8GHz processors.
View: Apple's iMac G5 Repair Extension Website News source: ThinkSecret
What's new?
- General
- new: IE7 Beta 1 direct integration support (xp sp2)
- new: DEP Unattended option
- new: Sereby's German Hotfix Pack v1.3+ support
- new: Greek and Russian (non-Cyrillic) language translation
- fix: Textmode Driver (nvraid post install reboots)
- fix: Direct integration for KB896344,KB890046,KB898461,KB893357
- fix: German pack integration (SetupHotfixesToRun included)
- fix: Compress error popup with small files
- fix: SFC Enabled full support
- fix: Main files uppercased
- Components
- new: ActiveX for streaming video
- new: Intel Indeo codecs
- new: Teletext codec
- new: IP Conferencing
- upd: TAPI App Support (removes more)
- upd: CTF Loader -> Text Services Framework (removes more)
- upd: WMP (now keeps MP3 codec)
- fix: DRWatson (back and fixed)
- fix: Printer drivers in Win2k (seemed like not removed)
Talking about the light-sabre-ish-dashboard in Lexus. Supposedly..their engineering design did not think it through enough with cold freezing weather in Michigan..and other northern states. Thus, on a cold windy day, Lexus will fail to display anything on the dashboard (cuz it is soo modern tech..with light sabre -ish display). It turns out that one of the capacitor on the board is very temperature-sensitive..geesh. (note, not all Lexus drivers experience the issue... however, as car ages, more and more drivers like me have experienced it. Typically, it happens to 1994~1997 Lexus LS/ES Series. As far as I know, they haven't nailed that problem yet..so it is a time bomb.. Lexus Kaizen needs some more improvements there)
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