Hi all. I have a tempermental secondhand blueberry iMac. It's running OS 9.2. There isn't much on it - the kids use it for games. From time to time it'll go through bouts of freezing and crashing, and sometimes it takes a few restarts to get it going again.
A few months ago, it appeared to be nearly dead - I'd restart, and get a flashing question mark (inside the little folder icon, flashing intermittently with the OS icon) and if I rebooted from a system CD or Norton Systemworks CD, it would boot up from the CD, but no hard drive icon to be found. Can't run disk repair or anything else if the disk isn't showing up. Well, I don't remember exactly how, but after many reboots, and unplugging and replugging the iMac a couple times, eventually the hard drive icon came back, and I was able to run Norton and do a clean install and all that and it ran fine for several months. But it's happening again... and this time I'm having no luck at all. Any tips on how to resurrect this machine? (Keep in mind I'm not a techie.) TIA kathyk -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
