imac 2008

Long story short, got a 2008 20" Core2 Duo iMac with 4GB RAM and an apparently soon to die HD, the owner reported not booting on some occasions, I dunno if this particular model had issues so I might think to tear it apart and stuff a 1TB HD inside it and use it to store data, remote backup for...

Thought I'd pop in and ask a 2 part question here about unsupported versions of OS X/macOS being hacked onto an Early 2008 iMac [8,1]... So... 1. Is Sierra or High Sierra the highest unsupported OS that can be loaded onto such a beast? and 2. Is RAM still stuck at 6GB reliably? The last...

I have a 2008 IMac that boots into windows 7 Enterprise. I bought it used and don't know the password. I have tried so many things to reset the windows password but no luck, because it was linked to a domain and the both the Admin and the Administrator accounts are disabled. I went to restore it...

As of a week ago, my iMac will either shut itself off when asleep or, if closed down properly, will not start up when I press the power button the back. This behaviour is intermittent. It will start up if I reset the SMC by taking the power cord out, wait 15 secs then plug it back in. So...

Hi everyone, So I got an imac from work after we upgraded all of the computers. Its a mid 2008 imac, it was running os x Leopard 10.5.8 prior. Apparently they used DBAN on it to wipe out private/sensitive information. I tried burning a .dmg file for leopard 10.5 installation on my pc laptop...

Hello I have an imac 8.1 24 "early 2008 with a defective 8800gs, I purchased a nvidia fx3600m, I flashed with nvflash and this rom files (http://gilles.aurejac.free.fr/imac_mxm/8800gs-imac81.rom.zip), but can not start imac with nvidia drivers. then I turned off the GPU drivers and then...

Hello, My grandad gave me his old 2007 iMac last year, i have been using it since and it works just fine, the only problem is that it can't play back 60fps (stutters ALOT), this is due to the underpowered graphics card (specs below). My friend has an 2008 iMac which he doesn't use anymore and it...

Hi, guys! I have an issue with my oldest Apple Machine. About a week ago a few apps wont start. Also the booting time was about 3 to 5 minutes. And it had a noise, like something was forcing hardware up to the limit. Although Activity Monitor said that the Processor was at least 50% free and the...

Hello everyone, I have an iMac 24 'early 2008 with the 8800M GS (I do not have to clear that my video card is defective ^^), I would like to know sil it is possible to mount another video card? Apparently I can install a 9800M GT (http://forum.netkas.org/index.php?topic=11099.0). But should I...