Greetings, My friend has a blue imac. 350 Mhz, 192 mb ram, 6g hard drive, os 9.2.2, slot-loading cdrom drive, original matching blue apple keyboard
The cdrom drive usually can not read an inserted cdrom. the cdrom drive makes noise but does not usually read any cd. If a cdrom has been inserted and you attempt to boot or restart, the boot sequence gets part way through the icon parade and then tries to access the cdrom. Then the boot sequence can not continue because it is stuck there trying to read the cdrom. It can not boot from the imac restore cd. We are trying to rule out a software problem before we attempt to disassemble the machine to get at the cdrom drive. os 9.2.2 was installed over a version of 9.1 many months ago. He does not remember if he had a cdrom drive problem before the software change. We booted with the os 9 base extensions only but the cdrom still did not work. So how would you proceed with trying to reload the system software if the cdrom ain't working? (obviously i can't just hook up an external scsi hard drive or external scsi cdrom and boot like in the old days.) is acquiring an external usb cdrom drive and hooking it up the only other way to try to restore the system software? or is it your experience that this is probably a cdrom drive problem and hence get another internal slot-loading cdrom drive? if that is the recommendation, where is a good source for these slot-loading cdrom drives? (ebay, swap-list, post to this list....???) many thanks in advance, stephen kenda -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
