I do not know if AppleCare forbids the swap of cd drives. There were, IIRC, a lot of iMacs that had power buttons which got stuck.
... Phone ...
Friend ... eMac ...only booted into a text-based screen (...Open Firmware ...). And ... ...one high-piched tone. ... ... the eMac would boot out of itself ... sometimes it would shutdown a few secs after it booted, sometimes the fifth time trying it would boot ...
...try...:
reset-nvram,
zap pram,
boot from Hardware test CD (eject key on k/b didn't work so I had him open the front and press the CD key on the drive),
nothing worked, still booted into Open Firmware.
So I drove ... there.
Disconnected all peripherals.
I noticed that the eMac wouldn't turn on if I pressed the power button the first time, I had to 'fiddle' a little to get it to 'spark'.
According to the kbase "1 beep = no RAM installed"
so I yanked one module at a time to test, same problem,
even tried another rather new battery from a tray-loader iMac, same problem.
I even tried to boot from the CD via Open Firmware, but couldn't find the right string.
Did a CUDA reset, same problem.
... I unscrewed the case ....
I disconnected the tiny little power cord and reconnected it to the power button, closed case and it booted fine.... No more Open Firmware...
He still has to fiddle with the power button, but it works fine now. I guess that that button got stuck and that's why it booted or shutdown out of itself.
Now my question, can I let it fixed under AppleCare? I bought this eMac a few weeks ago, and got two years AppelCare. Probably have to put the CD-ROM back, I don't think they like it that I installed that combo myself, right?
Has anyone of you with an eMac noticed the same problem or heard of it before?
Thanks, Marc
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