Sounds like a bad battery. There is a small battery on the motherboard of you iMac, and when it runs down, usually after some years, the symptoms are among others that the time and date fail and that you cannot get to the harddisk.
It may of course be your harddisk being ill, but I have seen enough Macs acting up due to lack of battery that I always check that first. The only trouble is that it is a rather special battery, a so-called half-size-AA, IIRC, but Radio-shack or similar is bound to have them. Or your local Mac-reseller. Cheers, Kim On 30/12/03 5:29, "Kathy Kotomaimoce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
