Thank you very much for posting. I was not aware of the LED lights. I have a 2010 that shows three lights. My screen has been ripped out so I must try and get that sorted. At least I know now the graphics card is okay.👍
One more thing to try if LED 3 doesn’t light up is change the PRAM battery, that little watch battery in the front. Then do PRAM reset on the next boot.
You guys are treasures. U go buy cheap iMac deals and fix em well, u know so much! But I’m disappointed that you have not done a start to end video for a 27" mid 2010 iMac that needed a non stock GPU replacement with all the details. Come on guys when will you do this so many faulty but legendary iMacs out there! 😊
Have you tried to reflow the GPU in the oven, nothing much to loose if it is faulty. After that cover it well with the thermal paste when installing back and take out the ODD so it has better cooling and is more temperature stable when it starts up.
I can’t see an update video, did you get it working? The 2011 iMacs’ with High Sierra are still useable in 2023, especially with an SSD and 16GB of RAM.
Now that you have a 2011 iMac 27 inch. Can you tell me if the lcd is the same as 2010 ? For some reason I hear the part number is not quite the same ? Extra connector maybe on the 2011 ?
It's possible that the newer iMac is just not compatible with the older GPU or the GPU connector on the motherboard is busted. If it's the 1st, there shouldn't be any trouble, but if it's the 2nd, it's busted.
@@MacintoshMen That does seem more likely, as the computer did turn on with the other GPU, which it didn't with the busted one.
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Hello, May I ask a question? My iMac shows white screen and progress bar when opening but doesn't continue after somewhere and complete! What is the problem? How can I solve this? Thanks for your paying attention.
It can be a lot of stuff, but firstly try resetting the PRAM. If this doesn't help maybe try reinstalling the OS. You might also have a dead hard drive. But in this case you'd have a blinking folder icon.. I'm not sure, can't say exactly what it is.
Seem to recall it won't boot if the RAM sticks are in the wrong slots. In one shot you had 2 on the same side. They need to be one either side/bank and also in either front or rear slots only, can't recall which. Better still: fill all 4 slots and be done with it.
The best original card was the HD 6970M, but I highly highly recommend NOT getting it because they fail a lot. As you can perfectly see on mine in the video. Better get a for example 765M, it's reliable and faster.
Hi @MacintoshMen, same unit with you. how do you know if its a bad logic board or a bad power supply? no LED light on the board. Do you have a video on PSU testing? :) Thanks!
Bro, great video. A customer brought me one of these these things with a messed up 21.5 display. I'm guessing that it is a bit newer than this one only by how much thinner it is around the edges. This thing is just not worth fixing. I tried researching it a bit with practically no info available. The specs are crap. Everything about it sux.
I wouldn't bother with the one you have. Those are a pain to disassemble and reassemble because of the glued screen. Especially with bad specs it's just a waste of time in opinion.
@@MacintoshMen Bro!?! Seriously? A glued screen? Wow! No wonder I cracked it, 😂 What a piece if crap. Ya, I bumped into that customer yesterday and he said that he was going to come and pick this thing up. When I confessed that I had broken it, his eye brows raised briefly, with a bit of a surprised look then a smile and he says that I owe him a new one. I bust out laughing(because that's just crazy talk), and he starts smiling and walking away saying, just kidding. I have a kid that I bounce ideas off of sometimes come by and I told him, that I told the customer that he broke it😆 I still want to buy that over priced itool kit at my local computer store, basically just for the suction cup for when one like yours turns up. Bro, when you bought that thing, I was like yelling at the TV, Nooooo! Don't Do It!!!! OMG Kid!!! Nooooo! But, I guess you couldn't hear me, lol. The store only sells the cups separately by the pair of course, grrr. Plus, they were even out of the $15 USD packaged pairs of stupid cups. $22 USD for the itool kit with one cup. I'm not totally burned out on computers, I've been messing with overclocking my i9 10900k and I've got him jacked up to 5.40 GHz. I mess around with a lot of Heaven, Valley, 3DMARK, R23 stuff, too. Well, stupid R/C trucks now, too. The cheap ones!! I've got a 19.2 battery power pack that I built wiring six 3.2 ion batteries together in series and I'm trying to find one that can take this much power. Yes, I am very bored, lol.
@@MacintoshMen OH wow, thanks! Yes, I am still interested in that bastard thing. I don't like to get beat. The customer is a super smart guy. He pretty much knew this pos was toast when he gave it to me. i7? This thing has an i7? Come on? Really? I had hell even finding the most basic info on this iturd. Let me go look at that video. I'm thinking about buying one for parts with a good, unbroken display and fixing his at my time/expense, because I don't like losing.
I'm about to put my first through my 20111 iMac. It went from working when I briefly stepped out of the room and broke when I came back in. Both fans race, the backlight is working, it detects RAM (beeps when I removed the RAM cards), and all the diagnostic indicators light up as they should. However, there is no chime, a black screen, though illuminated, and the USB input jacks appear to be dead as there are no lights from the mice or from either keyboard. USB jacks appear to be completely dead. I've looked up various resets, but they don't seem to work. I would think a hard drive failure wouldn't cause the USB jacks to quit. Same with a RAM card failure. All the diagnostics indicators are lit, yet it has remained unbootable with dead USB inputs for a month. It's very frustrating as I can't find any examples of another example of an iMAC with the exact symptoms of mine. I'm suspecting a rare failure within the motherboard.
I also suspect you have a failing motherboard. If only your GPU would be broken it would at least still do the chime. I'd also rule out the PSU since it lights up all the LEDs and the fans work.
Das Ausbauen ist echt zum Kotzen - Ich bin gedanklich bei Dir... Bei meinem 2011er 21 Zöller war auch die Grafikkarte hin. Durch u.a. Deine Beiträge motiviert hab ich nen Tausch auf Quadros versucht, 2 passende sowie gelistete Modelle gekauft und beide Male von der kulanten Rückgabemöglichkeit des Verkäufers Gebrauch gemacht. Leider wollte bei beiden Quadro K-Modellen LED 3 nicht leuchten... Hab im Endeffekt die alte Radeon gebacken - dann ging sie wieder. Der positive Nebeneffekt: Mit jedem Mal Grafikkarte tauschen geht's schneller 😅
Oje, da hast du ja ziemlich Pech gehabt. Jetzt da die Karten immer älter werden kommt es leider immer mehr vor dass kaputte Karten verschickt werden (auf MacRumors stehts sogar als 1. bei den Known Issues). Ich hoffe auch, dass meine bestellte 870M dann funktioniert.
The iMac 🖥 24 is total shit looking at it face on, and the colours 👎🏼 hope the new Pro iMac 30inc will be better & a different design, fingers crossed 🤞
@@MacintoshMen I don't like the design, it's weird. It still has the big chin that all the old iMacs had for some reason despite the fact that the inside is probably 75% empty.
Thank you very much for posting. I was not aware of the LED lights. I have a 2010 that shows three lights. My screen has been ripped out so I must try and get that sorted. At least I know now the graphics card is okay.👍
One more thing to try if LED 3 doesn’t light up is change the PRAM battery, that little watch battery in the front. Then do PRAM reset on the next boot.
You guys are treasures. U go buy cheap iMac deals and fix em well, u know so much! But I’m disappointed that you have not done a start to end video for a 27" mid 2010 iMac that needed a non stock GPU replacement with all the details.
Come on guys when will you do this so many faulty but legendary iMacs out there! 😊
Thanks for the compliments; this 2011 was a very annoying one though. Almost nothing I tried worked..
@@MacintoshMen are there any plans in buying a faulty 27" core i7 2010 iMac, to fix and change the gpu? :D
Have you tried to reflow the GPU in the oven, nothing much to loose if it is faulty. After that cover it well with the thermal paste when installing back and take out the ODD so it has better cooling and is more temperature stable when it starts up.
I will try this, as you said, there is nothing to loose.
There are now VBIOS mods that allow full brightness control and boot menu for some cards, I think it was Quadro K2100M.
I know ;)
I can’t see an update video, did you get it working? The 2011 iMacs’ with High Sierra are still useable in 2023, especially with an SSD and 16GB of RAM.
No, unfortunately I never got that one to work. Never showed a signal with the upgraded GPU.
Now that you have a 2011 iMac 27 inch. Can you tell me if the lcd is the same as 2010 ? For some reason I hear the part number is not quite the same ? Extra connector maybe on the 2011 ?
i have done this stripdown a few times lol......after you have done the stripdown once- it is fairly fast and easy
Yeah, now that I have done it three times I can also do it faster haha
It's possible that the newer iMac is just not compatible with the older GPU or the GPU connector on the motherboard is busted. If it's the 1st, there shouldn't be any trouble, but if it's the 2nd, it's busted.
I’m also starting to think that the older GPU isn’t compatible anymore. Well, we will find out once the 870M arrives.
@@MacintoshMen That does seem more likely, as the computer did turn on with the other GPU, which it didn't with the busted one.
Hello, May I ask a question? My iMac shows white screen and progress bar when opening but doesn't continue after somewhere and complete! What is the problem? How can I solve this? Thanks for your paying attention.
It can be a lot of stuff, but firstly try resetting the PRAM. If this doesn't help maybe try reinstalling the OS. You might also have a dead hard drive. But in this case you'd have a blinking folder icon.. I'm not sure, can't say exactly what it is.
Seem to recall it won't boot if the RAM sticks are in the wrong slots. In one shot you had 2 on the same side. They need to be one either side/bank and also in either front or rear slots only, can't recall which. Better still: fill all 4 slots and be done with it.
No, that has nothing to do with it. It even played the chime. There is clearly the GPU the issue.
What is the gpu that u think is the best for this 27 iMac and I’m talking about original GPU not mods ones?
The best original card was the HD 6970M, but I highly highly recommend NOT getting it because they fail a lot. As you can perfectly see on mine in the video. Better get a for example 765M, it's reliable and faster.
@@MacintoshMen thanks so much
Hi @MacintoshMen, same unit with you. how do you know if its a bad logic board or a bad power supply? no LED light on the board.
Do you have a video on PSU testing? :) Thanks!
Bro, great video. A customer brought me one of these these things with a messed up 21.5 display. I'm guessing that it is a bit newer than this one only by how much thinner it is around the edges. This thing is just not worth fixing. I tried researching it a bit with practically no info available. The specs are crap. Everything about it sux.
I wouldn't bother with the one you have. Those are a pain to disassemble and reassemble because of the glued screen. Especially with bad specs it's just a waste of time in opinion.
If you are interested how it is to take apart, we have a video where we disassemble such an iMac, it's called "21.5" Late 2012 iMac i7 CPU Upgrade".
@@MacintoshMen Bro!?! Seriously? A glued screen? Wow! No wonder I cracked it, 😂 What a piece if crap.
Ya, I bumped into that customer yesterday and he said that he was going to come and pick this thing up. When I confessed that I had broken it, his eye brows raised briefly, with a bit of a surprised look then a smile and he says that I owe him a new one. I bust out laughing(because that's just crazy talk), and he starts smiling and walking away saying, just kidding.
I have a kid that I bounce ideas off of sometimes come by and I told him, that I told the customer that he broke it😆
I still want to buy that over priced itool kit at my local computer store, basically just for the suction cup for when one like yours turns up.
Bro, when you bought that thing, I was like yelling at the TV, Nooooo! Don't Do It!!!! OMG Kid!!! Nooooo! But, I guess you couldn't hear me, lol. The store only sells the cups separately by the pair of course, grrr. Plus, they were even out of the $15 USD packaged pairs of stupid cups. $22 USD for the itool kit with one cup.
I'm not totally burned out on computers, I've been messing with overclocking my i9 10900k and I've got him jacked up to 5.40 GHz. I mess around with a lot of Heaven, Valley, 3DMARK, R23 stuff, too. Well, stupid R/C trucks now, too. The cheap ones!! I've got a 19.2 battery power pack that I built wiring six 3.2 ion batteries together in series and I'm trying to find one that can take this much power. Yes, I am very bored, lol.
@@MacintoshMen OH wow, thanks! Yes, I am still interested in that bastard thing. I don't like to get beat.
The customer is a super smart guy. He pretty much knew this pos was toast when he gave it to me.
i7? This thing has an i7? Come on? Really? I had hell even finding the most basic info on this iturd. Let me go look at that video. I'm thinking about buying one for parts with a good, unbroken display and fixing his at my time/expense, because I don't like losing.
@@MacintoshMenok, I found it, ty!!!
Dude what happend with this imac?
I all ready buy one. (Faulty of course).
Wait for your results.
Your help is welcome.
Cheers.
Led 3, not working is their way to fix that ?
I'm about to put my first through my 20111 iMac. It went from working when I briefly stepped out of the room and broke when I came back in. Both fans race, the backlight is working, it detects RAM (beeps when I removed the RAM cards), and all the diagnostic indicators light up as they should.
However, there is no chime, a black screen, though illuminated, and the USB input jacks appear to be dead as there are no lights from the mice or from either keyboard. USB jacks appear to be completely dead. I've looked up various resets, but they don't seem to work.
I would think a hard drive failure wouldn't cause the USB jacks to quit. Same with a RAM card failure. All the diagnostics indicators are lit, yet it has remained unbootable with dead USB inputs for a month. It's very frustrating as I can't find any examples of another example of an iMAC with the exact symptoms of mine. I'm suspecting a rare failure within the motherboard.
I also suspect you have a failing motherboard. If only your GPU would be broken it would at least still do the chime. I'd also rule out the PSU since it lights up all the LEDs and the fans work.
$140 bucks for an eleven year old none working Imac is a "pretty good deal"? Man you guys really go hard for Apple.
First, this video was shot in 2021 and second, prices for tech is always less expensive in America than in Europe.
"But with a bit of eucalyptus oil..." ;)
Eucalyptus oil fixes everything
I hate that apple had the boards upside down in 2011 iMacs
Are we sure this is a 2011? Looks curved
I‘m 110% sure it’s a 2011
@@MacintoshMen right on! They’ve changed the design so little haha! 👍🏼
Das Ausbauen ist echt zum Kotzen - Ich bin gedanklich bei Dir...
Bei meinem 2011er 21 Zöller war auch die Grafikkarte hin. Durch u.a. Deine Beiträge motiviert hab ich nen Tausch auf Quadros versucht, 2 passende sowie gelistete Modelle gekauft und beide Male von der kulanten Rückgabemöglichkeit des Verkäufers Gebrauch gemacht. Leider wollte bei beiden Quadro K-Modellen LED 3 nicht leuchten... Hab im Endeffekt die alte Radeon gebacken - dann ging sie wieder. Der positive Nebeneffekt: Mit jedem Mal Grafikkarte tauschen geht's schneller 😅
Oje, da hast du ja ziemlich Pech gehabt. Jetzt da die Karten immer älter werden kommt es leider immer mehr vor dass kaputte Karten verschickt werden (auf MacRumors stehts sogar als 1. bei den Known Issues). Ich hoffe auch, dass meine bestellte 870M dann funktioniert.
@@MacintoshMen da drücke ich Dir selbstverständlich die Daumen🤞
This may sound stupid, but couldn't you remove these blind screws with pliers or is it impossible/waste of time?
Unfortunately no, those screws screw in from the other side; it’s just flat and one single piece on the front. Really stupid
2 hour drive? And back again? I hope the fuel is free
No it wasn't free unfortunately haha. I only bought it for the youtube project.
I can not believe you did not clean off the heartsink since you had it out. The is one of the most unprofessional things I have ever seen.
There is really no reason to do that yet since I'll put in another GPU in the future. Then I will of course clean it.
So frustrating.
Yeah, but that’s the way it is with those haha
The iMac 🖥 24 is total shit looking at it face on, and the colours 👎🏼 hope the new Pro iMac 30inc will be better & a different design, fingers crossed 🤞
21.5" and 27" are good though.
I doubt it, it will probably be the same just bigger. In my opinion it looks alright; though I’d never buy one
@@MacintoshMen I don't like the design, it's weird. It still has the big chin that all the old iMacs had for some reason despite the fact that the inside is probably 75% empty.
@@jm036 the huge chin looks even more wrong because it has no Apple logo
@@vetrixfx9264 Wait it doesn't? Lmao