Viewing issue data for week 2009-45
Summary (109 total)
Processor
3.06C2D: 45
3.33C2D: 3
2.66i5: 23
2.8i7: 38
Graphics Card
NVIDIA 9400M: 1
ATI 4670: 45
ATI 4850: 63
Screen Size
21.5": 6
27": 103
Hard Drive Size
500GB": 1
1TB": 96
2TB": 12
| Condition | iMac Specs | Source | Comments |
| Cracked glass (bottom left) | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 2TB | scopro | No damage to box or styrofoam. |
| Cracked glass (bottom left) | 27" 3.33 Core2Duo 1TB | ||
| Cracked glass (bottom left) | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | also got replacement iMac (it's fine) | |
| Cracked glass (bottom left) | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | Paul Schlosser | |
| Cracked glass (bottom left) | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | StoneSoup | cracked in the lower left-hand corner |
| Cracked glass (other location) | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | Eisenzahn | I’ve sent back my first iMac 27’’ because of a crack in the glass. The glass of my second 27’’ is ok but it has this flickering failure. |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | kawo | After replacing the ATI graphics drivers the flickering is definitely gone on my machine. |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | fredpontes | I got my Imac 27 1 week ago and the problems started 2 days ago. I had the white lines and some blackouts. |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | bfreebody | The 2-3 inches of static appear at random intervals on the screen, I've also experienced the screen going completely blank from time to time. |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | Brian Pratt | I installed the 10.6.2 update last night and I'm seeing the horizontal bar flickering this morning. So the 10.6.2 update didn't fix everything, at least. |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | Elroyofderovers | |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | Soaringoak | dentical issue here... 2-3" bands flicker horizontally across screen randomly... happening less often is the complete blacking out, but it happens. |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | dicktwi | I restarted once and I haven't seen the problem again. |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | SirR-G | The first time it occurred was after running in Windows for a bit--the computer had gotten quite hot so I thought it may be a thermal issue. I noticed it almost immediately after rebooting into OS X at the gray Apple logo screen. |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | Stephen Stark | There was a similar issue with my MacBook Pro, but there were two settings for the display—when you switched to the low power mode (I think) it cured it. I don't think there are similar setting changes that can be made to the iMac. |
| DOA (won't boot) | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | Richmond1138 | My first 27" iMac went and died on me after about a week. The replacement has developed this screen flicker problem, including the flashes, the momentary black-screen and failure of "vertical hold" with the screen shifting down. |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | DavidsonTsai | |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | jmavedillo | In Apple Support I've been told to unplug the computer, press power button for 15 seconds and then plug it again. Of course, it's better to upgrade to 10.6.2 before doing this. |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | shahtooh | The reason why I am asking is simple : I had the flickering/etc. issue even after the update. If "your" drivers are just the same as Apple's, then I know it will come back anytime. |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | Umpi | After update it to 10.6.2, it worked better but finaly, today again the screen splited leaving the dock at the top. |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | GLM_BUF | Used it all evening on Friday, all day Saturday and it was fine. This morning the flickering started after a half hour of use, then the screen now goes black every 30 seconds or so (4 times while writing this). Same behaviour , now bar has gone to the top... Read More |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | guitarguy09 | However, the tech said that it may in fact be the video card and that apple engineers are "aware of the issue and are working on it". They reportedly are "leaning toward it being a hardware issue" right now but are still trying to identify the exact p |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | Invisidrew | I've had a new iMac 27" with Dual Core (1TB drive) for about 18 hours now. And I've been noticing the flickering/banding almost from about one hour after startup. It's not horrible, but it's persistent enough to make me very concerned. The occassion |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | rustyosaurus | i am on day 3 of new 27 in imac base config and am also experiencing the same issues. i wonder if a firmware update won't fix this. i will probably just go make them exchange it instead. |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | BruceHA | Having the same issue now and then on my imac 27" (Week 42)... |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | canyonblue | Worked fine for about 2 hours now I get the flicker (bands, at various places for under one second) and screen blackening (total blackout for about 1 second) about once every 2 or 3 minutes. A simple reboot fixed nothing and I have not yet tried the pram ... Read More |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | AGPcardforPM | After several hours of continuous use with the brightness set between 6-8 bars (halfway), Intermittent screen flicker both horizontal and vertical occured with the occasional black screen for a brief second. The problem persisted and became more frequent,... Read More |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | homsar | W8945 i7 here; had quite a bit of flickering on Sunday |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | Bricu | Over the past week, I have noticed the screen flickering issues. I have contacted apple and I am still attempting to determine if there is a pattern. For the record,this mac (4 gigs of ram, 1Tb of storage) is from batch: W8945. |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | JohnPT | I have an W8945 serial |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | jamiebicknell | I bought my iMac on the 13th November. Didn't start to use it until the 24th November and started having problems with the flickering screen on the 26th November. |
| DOA (won't boot) | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | Yaser Herrera | This morning, four days after first getting it, my nephew says he shut it down properly and then it would no longer boot. No noise, no nothing. |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | dwarnecke11 | By the way, my Week 45 i5 just flickered for the fourth time this week. Getting a refund tomorrow. The entire screen flickered/garbled for a split second. I took my Week 45 i5 back and I'm waiting this out for now. I think I'll wipe my G4 Mac mini and... Read More |
| Noisy hard drive | 21.5" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | extremely noisy optical drive + noisy hard drive | |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | ian@yorku.ca | |
| Hard drive failure | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | ||
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | fmauriet@gmail.com | |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | molozhaev | |
| Noisy hard drive | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | ||
| Noisy Screen | 21.5" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | mwhiegl | High pitch noise except for full brightness or very lowe brightness. |
| flickering,yellow | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | yellow screen | |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | replacement machine with same problems as original | |
| Noisy hard drive | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | HARD DRIVE RUMBLES LOUDLY, MAC EXPERT CLAIMS ITS NORMAL FOR SEAGATE DRIVES | |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | madebysteve | seems ok after restart. Flickering is fairly random, some days no flickering |
| Flickering display | 27" 3.06 Core2Duo 1TB | Jr Beck | We bought our iMac 27-inch around 6 weeks ago and the flickering & blackouts began around 2 weeks after purchase. Have informed Apple support - they had not heard of this issue at the time so had me do reboots and run the hardware tests etc. None of these... Read More |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | betronic | in OS-X flickering and more problems in windows 7 - Windows 7 32bit + BootCamp driver - Windows 7 64bit + BootCamp driver - Windows 7 32bit + new ATI catalyst driver - Windows 7 64bit + new ATI catalyst driver always the same problem - heavy graphic... Read More |
| flickering,yellow | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 2TB | Yellow Screen | |
| Flickering display | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB | Jacques LAPORTE | It happened 3 times up to now (28 days) blackout following 2 or 3 flickers |
| Yellow screen | 27" 2.66 Quad i5 1TB | My iMac has 'mild' yellow tint in lower 1/3 and 3 dead pixels in iSight only. No cracks. No flickering. I'll be keeping mine as my issues are not severe but I did call Apple Tech in week 2 after buying to go on file as having the yellow tint just in case... Read More | |
| Yellow screen | 27" 2.8 Quad i7 1TB |