When you say it doesn't boot up, does it "do" anything? I mean, does
it try to boot, do you see a light on the power button, do you hear
the hard drive try to spin up? Do you get a flashing question mark?
Do you get chimes? Anything?
On Sep 6, 2005, at 2:23 PM, Larry W. Virden wrote:
Recently I became the owner of one of the first imacs that were on
the market - one of the Bondi Blue ones. I don't know more details,
because it doesn't boot up. The original owner died, and the widow
just wanted to get rid of most of the stuff that was cluttering up
the room.
So, I was wondering how best to begin trying to get this machine into
workable order. I wouldn't _mind_ being able to recover any files off
the disk, but if that seems unlikely, that's understandable. The
machine hasn't run for probably 5 yrs, so it may not be possible to
recover things.
My ultimate goal would be to get it to the point of running either
Mac OS X or Linux, as well as connect to the internet.
Thanks for any tips you might have.
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