On 10-Aug-04, at 6:30 PM, Kevin Willis wrote:
I just picked up a "Flower Power" iMac 500 from a auction. It had everything but a hard drive. I installed a WD 40 GB HD and am trying to install OS 9.1 from a bootable CD. For some reason, the computer doesn't seem to want to boot from the CD. I have tried every pin combination on the HD that there is. To be honest, I am not even sure if the CD drive is IDE or SCSI. There is no power cable attached to it, and the cable that connects to it has 50 pins. Is there a secret to getting one of these things to boot and install?
Thanks--
Kevin
Hi Kevin:
I have read your request and a couple of the replies so far posted, and I am just a little confused as to whether your post has a typo or not. Your note talks about "CD" in one place but "HD" in another and I am just wondering if you really mean that you cannot boot from EITHER your CD player or your internal HD or whether any of these acronyms is a typo.
However, assuming everything you typed is correct, my comments are:
"There is no power cable attached to it, and the cable that connects to it has 50 pins." Well, regardless of whether you mean the internal CD drive or the internal HD, I believe there should be a power cable attached to it as well as a signal cable. If there isn't one, you need to go hunting in the harness for it or find a new one if it has been somehow removed.
Yes, I have had experiences with my Rev/A iMac where for some reason it will not boot from any CD except one of the ones that came with it when I first bought it brand new. As I recall, once I was able to boot it that way, it would then boot from other boot CD's which it had failed to recognize earlier, and that's how I got to finally use something like Disk Warrior on it to repair the original internal hard drive issue.
Good luck with your endeavour.
Jim Foster Courtice, Ontairo, Canada
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