#Mactracker late 2006 imac how to#
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#Mactracker late 2006 imac mac#

You don’t want to use too much force and damage them. The aluminium heat sink on the front is held by 4 black plugs that have a spring on the heat sink side and two barbs on the tip that hook behind the surface as soon as they are pressed through the board to the other side. Unfortunately, they stop when the logic board is taken out, while the most important is still to do: removing the old thermal compound, cleaning the surface of the GPU and other chips and heat sinks and applying new thermal compound between the heat sink and chips.

#Mactracker late 2006 imac how to#

IFixit has some clear pictures and instructions on how to take apart the Intel iMac 2006 that I used. This way, the iMac can’t overheat without the cooling fans getting uncomfortably loud. He uses SMC Fan Control to set the speed of the central fan to maximum and leave the fans for the hard disk and optical drives as low as they are per default. According to youtube user ‘casualtechs’ aka Mark Sicat, anything above 31✬ indicates a problem. Not surprisingly, around that temperature the computer becomes unstable. Within minutes it heats up to around 100✬, especially if you let it work a bit, for example by playing a video. The 17 and 20 inch models have a GPU soldered to the logic board, an ATY Radeon X1600 in this case.Īfter waking the iMac up, the GPU temperature immediately goes up very fast. All sensors indicated normal temperatures, except the one for the video card, or rather: GPU, because only the 24 inch model has a separate video board.

#Mactracker late 2006 imac mac#

I decided to first put the iMac back together so I could measure the temperature sensors with Hardware Monitor. This list of Mac models grouped by CPU type contains all central processing units (CPUs). I even found a video demonstrating a method first to resolder the pins of the GPU. Someone suspected the thermal conductor to be leaking. I found several cases in which the thermal compound needed to be refreshed. The bottom left fan had some dust on it, so I cleaned it, but heat sink ‘air tunnel’ on the top was as clean as a whistle. This could not have caused the problem.Ī problem with the heat sink is more likely. I carefully opened up the iMac and inspected two of the fans. SMC Fan Control is often used to keep the fans at a higher speed, to prevent heat problems. These kind of video problems are typical for iMacs from that period and are usually caused by heat problems and of course sometimes by bad hardware. I ran Mactracker to determine the exact model of iMac. Still, I did some research about this particular Mac model. The iMac was 7,5 years old then. Now it’s 8,5 years and it crashes more often and sooner then a year ago, so I decided to try and find out whether I can fix the problem myself.Īt first I was sceptical about overheating being the problem, because I didn’t even hear the fans and you’d think that they would at least rev up.

#Mactracker late 2006 imac for mac os x#

Some starting point could be at Īs there are projects like Classilla for Classic Mac OS 9 and TenFourFox for Mac OS X on PPC that are both based on Firefox ESR 45 code, there is the hope that ESR 45 will be maintained for a longer period of time or that there will be other projects arising that will somehow maintain browsers for Mac OS X 10.6 and lower.My parents 20 inch first generation Intel iMac from early 2006 (A1174) began to show strangely garbled video on random parts of the screen, after a few minutes followed by a ‘frozen’ screen or spontaneous restart few minutes later.Īt first these glitches happend only on warm days.

#Mactracker late 2006 imac update#

Personally, I think that 10.6 is a great OS and I wouldn't update to 10.7 as I can't see a real advantage in doing that.Įxcept you absolutely want to run the iCab Browser on it.Īnother long term option is to find some actively maintained open source browser that will compile on 10.6 and compile it by yourself. No, according to the Apple database, both the 21.5 and 27 Late 2009 models cannot run anything newer than Mac OS 10.13.6. IMHO, Safari is such an old release, that it can't be really considered as a secure browsing option, even on 10.8. Then I've found, but didn't test: NetSurf Roccat Some time ago it was announced last release for January 2017 and it was luckily extended! On the release plan I can see at least support until June 2017, though this timeframe for the last release could be extended or not.

#Mactracker late 2006 imac software#

Under the Software tab, it shows the maximum OS you can install. Mountain Lion I run Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 45.x that will still work and still gets security fixes on 10.6, too. In Mactracker, the gren dot means Apple will still service it, not what OS it supports. Didn't check the TLS v.1.2 specs of these (edit: Firefox ESR 45 supports TLS v.1.2), but on 10.8.