Thanks for all of your responses. I picked up a maxtel 80gig hard drive at staples for 50. got a good deal but now someone told me it might not be the hard drive so I need another opinion before I open the box.
This is the story: The iMac would boot up and be fine for 10-20 minutes then would freeze. When restarted a map of north/south america would show up then the sad mac. After it had been cold for a while, I started it up and backed up the hard drive. I then reformatted the drive and when I went to load up the system it started to load and after 5 minutes or so it stopped, said it couldn't finish because the disk was bad and then froze. I restarted and tried again it started to boot from the disk and then we heard what sounded like a ball bearing spin and clink then it continued to boot from the disk and no hard drive appeared on the desk top. The disk booted but said the hard drive was damaged. Someone told me it sounded like the CPU went because of the sound.???? Anyone else think it could be this? If I took out a hard drive from a g3 233 beige desktop could that work to test in the iMac? Thanks again! -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
