Kay Did you sort your iMac problem?
It came to my notice lately - I have a similar problem. The advice to replace the PRAM battery is the right advice! You can open the trap door with a coin (after switching off and laying the iMac on its face) and c arefully extract the little battery you can see through the trap door. A nbew one will cost oyu about £4 maybe from Maplin or Amazon perhaps. See *Primary lithium battery* *LS 14250* 3.6 V Primary lithium-thionyl chloride (Li-SOCl2) High energy density1⁄2 AA-size bobbin cell its again not impossible to replacve the new one and maybe your iMac will start again like new! Colin On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 at 6:10:06 PM UTC, kaypriest wrote: > > Hello, > > I am new to the group, and happy to find others with older imac's. > > I have a G3 and it no longer will power up. This has been coming on for a > while,as it was more& more difficult over the past several weeks to get it > powered up. Now, it won't power up at all, just a split second of light > when the power button is pushed. My best guess is the power supply is the > problem. I'm afraid to try to use the install or restore CD in case I put > it into the CD slot, and with no power, can't get it back. > > I found another imac which I believe is a g3 and wonder if I could have > the power supply of the working one moved to my imac, or could I have my > hard drive switched to the working imac. If the working imac is not the > exact same model, would the HD's be compatible? > > I only use this computer for a specific purpose, and so no need or desire > to update hardware or software. > > Are either of these options workable, and what would be preferable? I hope > to be sure that buying the imac is worthwhile in time and effort. Thanks > for any advice you may have. > > kay priest > -- -- 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.
