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



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