On Oct 16, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Simon Royal wrote: > The internal DVD drive was also playing up and it wouldn't pick up > the disc.
Wow. A lot is issues. HD not working. Optical drives not working. (note, this is two separate busses, SATA and ATA). You sure the power supply was good? Probably not, since you said "The DC board looks a bit burnt." Intel iMac's have a DC board? This means external power brick, like the Mini? (I should know, I've worked on a few Intel iMacs, but I can't remember). > I have a DVD drive in a firewire case but AHT discs will only boot > in Apple specified drives. I don't buy this. A bootable device should be a bootable device. The disc can't specify which devices it will or won't boot from. It's a chicken & egg type problem. The disc, which is dumb can't sense the boot device without being booted first. Hence, it must boot in order to know what the device is. I've got several AHT (Apple Hardware Test) discs and ASD (Apple Service Diagnostic) discs. They always boot from externals for me, it's just that they won't run on a wrong machine. I suspect your external ports were also not working on this severely broken iMac? I believe AHT & ASD should boot from any bootable device. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
