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eMac problems. Troubleshooting help needed....
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Toronto, ON, CAN
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I have a 1.25GHZ eMac.
This past weekend, i had my brother install a 160GB HD and a 16X DVD-RW drive in it. He is in tech support, so he tears down computers all the time. This was the 4th eMac he has upgraded, so he knows what he is doing.
Since the upgrade, the bottom third of my screen shakes (mostly on the left) when i boot up, and really any time i launch an app.
Seems like its when the HD/processor is being stressed.
Its pretty bad, and i do not want it to lead to anymore problems.
There has also been a weird whiny noise coming from the machine. It is intermittent and changes in pitch.
I have tried to troubleshoot by removing periphials, moving the computer to another room (thought there could have been some interference).
Any ideas?
Could we have missed somehting when putting it back together? It looks like magnetic interference. What could cause this?
Ask me any questions if you need more info to help.
Any help would be appreciated 
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Join Date: May 2003
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The bottom right corner of my eMac shimmies whenever I have a kettle, vacuum cleaner or immersion heater on. Doesn't matter if its in this room or elsewhere in the office. Thankfully, it's a small office!
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It sounds like a power supply problem. Does the eMac power supply
have enough watts to support the upgrades you put in there. The whining noise could be cause by under powered fans of something is rubbing on the fan (cables, wires, etc.)
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Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Mattoon, IL coles
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I know that the iMacs still have them, but are rarely used?
google search CUDA Mac?
It corrected MANY problems such as you described in older macs!
Jeff
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Jeff Strong and his wunderputer!
Performa 640(PPC-601)/LC040/52mb/(8.6)/10.3gigs Win95b/586dx2/100mhz/32mb, with only
1 Zoom 56k modem, 16" Apple monitor, 12 year old Stylewriter II printer, floppy, cd, kybrd, & scanner!
I moved "up" to an Apple beige G3 with a G4/500 zif chip o/c to 550mhz, running Mac OS X 10.1 with the same 16" Apple monitor now using 6mb vram, 768mb sdram ram, a 30 gig EIDE drive, another keyboard, same zoom 56k, a Yamaha SCSI CDRW 6/4/16, floppy, and future EIDE DVD, or.............transitioning a lot of this into a Powermac 9600!
Bill Gates "forced" me to buy one of his 'pirated' WindowsXP commodity-based PC's from Dell 'new' for $400, 2.8ghz (slower than G4/550), 17", CDRW, 512mb, DVD, and same OLD Zoom 56k!
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