IMac is doing some weird stuff. Please help.

My iMac has been messing up the past couple days. I am on it right now and it's working perfectly fine aside from the fact I'm using an external monitor, but 99% of the time I cannot get on it. First of all the screen in my iMac does not work, it is completely black. When I try to start it up it, half of the time it makes the start up noise over and over without doing anything. My mouse will not light up and the lights on my keyboard wont light up. 49% of the time when it actually starts up right my external monitor will not work. It just wont read it. The 1% of times I get it to work I have to first press the power button on my iMac and then quickly press the power button on the external monitor otherwise it just doesn't work for some reason. I've reset the PRAM and tried to boot with my installation disk and holding down C and it does nothing. Prior to the screen going out for a couple months I noticed that after waking my computer up from sleep the background would change slightly different colors. Sometimes it would get sort of blue, sometimes yellow, sometimes red. Some of the times It would change my background to the background that comes preloaded for Leopard. And then there were times when waking it wouldn't do any of those things and would be perfectly fine. I really don't get whats going on with my computer. It is far from being under warranty. So I'm looking for a little advice from you people. I'm going to open this puppy up and check the capacitors, but what other things should I look for? Does this even sound like something I can fix on my own? Tell me some things you think might be wrong so I can make a check list to run through. Any ideas or advice is greatly appreciated.

Tim_Tebow wrote:
I think formatting to one decimal point is a good idea. Where can I learn more about it?
Google?
As for learning more about floating points, here's one article: [http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-1996/jw-10-hood.html]
Edited by: endasil on 9-May-2009 8:11 PM

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