Hi, Chris, My iMac died a couple of days ago, too. I called our local Mac specialists and they said from the sounds of it, it is a done deal- I blew up some type of board. (lots of cackling for a few days, then a kind of a large pop, then no boot at all - nada, zilch!) I had a G3, bondi blue, 233 mhz, that I'd put 386 megs of ram into and had upgraded the hard drive to a 40gig. (I loved that baby and am in mourning :(
I'm bought an external hard drive enclosure for $45.00 (coming in the mail) and am planning on pulling my hard drive out and hooking it up to another iMac to get my data out. Hopefully, this should work as my hard drive is still good, I'm assuming. I'm wondering if I overtaxed my little Bondi Blue iMac with OS X. Seems like a lot of the older iMacs are biting the dust lately. Do they just have a lifespan of four years or so, or is it that I souped it up too much? Or just my bad luck? Just wondering out loud. I feel your pain, Chris. I'm just glad my son's 500 mhz iMac is around still.
Lauren
On Monday, March 15, 2004, at 11:30 AM, iMac List wrote:


My iMac appears to have died. I was told that it is probably the =
processor. If it has indeed seen its last days, is there anyway I could =
retrieve the information from the hard drive (myself). The iMac I am =
speaking of is a G3 333mhz. =20


Chris



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