On Nov 13, 2008, at 7:14 PM, vacputer wrote:
> > HELP ME! I KNOW THIS IS NOT RELATED, BUT MY IMAC WON'T BOOT! HELP! > I RESTARTED IT AND IT GAVE ME A SCREEN WITH "COMMAND "BOOTR" NOT > RECOGNIZED" OR SOMETHING! this has happened many times before, and i > have found turning the machine off and unplugging it for about ten > minutes. this almost always works. That's a bad sign in the first place. > THIS TIME THE STUPID THING WOULD > NOT POWER ON AT ALL WHEN I PLUGGED IT BACK IN! I CRACKED IT OPEN TO > SEE IF ANYTHING OBVIOUS WAS WRONG, BUT I DIDN'T FIND ANYTHING. help! > help! help! help! help! HELP! I'll wager it's a bad PRAM battery, and the pram is now confused, and it's been failing for some time. <http://www.macworld.com/article/2496/2001/10/howtoimac.html> has disassembly instructions and a bunch of pictures to help you get to it. <http://tinyurl.com/6dmbfg> this is what you're looking for, Radio Shack carries them. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
