Hello again! So, apologies for the typos before.... :-(
I removed the original PRAM battery and replaced it with a more recent but perhaps not quite new one and we have a little progress: The start button has stopped flickering and after 9 seconds held down goes off I found the unbent paperclip click point and ther was no disk inside. I found my original two CDs and tried to put them in. The slot accepts them takes tem in and in the nicest possible way - pushes them out again... no go there. I tried all the options again including shift hed down, ctrl & cmd, c, a no go I dug out a Formac FW CD/DVD drive which I connected up (it works on my MBP!) but it wont allow the iMac to boot either of the CDs if installed. I have tried a USB card reader with a flash memory module which has various Mac OS's installed but zilch. I will order a new PRAM battery today and try again but otherwsie it seems likely to be more problematical and probably HDD related? Does anyone know if the CD drivers are on the HDD or in ROM? If on HDD that would explain why it wont load the CD...? Wouldnt it? I see elsewhere that replacing an HDD in an iMac isnt seen as being a user job..... .... any thoughts as to what my disk options would be..... size limits? Its running OS 9.0 at present but I am happy to install OS X. Advice, thoughts? Colin On Monday, April 6, 2015 at 8:54:40 PM UTC+1, jmbrinck wrote: > > Same thing happened not long ago with my old Mac 6100CD. And a new PRAM > battery got it booted. Worth a try. > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Colin Yarwood <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi Guys >> >> Having good my LC475 and PB1400s working again ;-) I thought Id pull the >> old iMac Indigo out and see if I can get it to run. >> >> I recall we had it halt and it didnt want to start again c 2003 before we >> put it in the garage... >> >> >> So, got it out cleaned it up and added a keyboard and mouse and connected >> up to mains. >> >> Pressed the button and it went clunk and a green light lit around the >> button and flickers - something somewhere inside the case flutters >> regularly but no sign of life on the screen. >> >> I tried option startup keys and it doesnt do any different - no FW mode >> startup, No alt disk. >> >> I think there is a CD in the slot - I couldnt put its original CD in >> anyway and as its a slot loader I could not find the paper clip with to >> eject it powered on or not! I looked at leaft and right of slot without >> success :-( >> >> I have a FW disk and pugged it in and tried to start it but while its >> light came on it went off as did the green light on the iMac. >> >> Any ideas? PRAM Battery? Same as LC475 3.6 V? >> >> Colin >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a >> group for those using Apple iMacs and 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] >> <javascript:> >> To leave this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "iMac Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and 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 leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
