Have you tried starting up from the CD? I think, for your model, all you need to do is restart with the CD in place and hold down the letter "c" on you keyboard until you see that the CD has been used to start up from. It'll be obvious. Then, you can see if your hard drive is accessible. That's likely to give you a clue.
> From: Dan Crutcher <dcrutcher at loumag.com> > Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:41:38 -0400 > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: MacGroup: iMac won't start up > > I have a slot-loading iMac (366 Mhz?) that will give me the start-up > "boooong," then the hard drive will chatter for about two seconds, then > nothing for about five seconds, then it shuts down. Will do this over > and over again, as long as I want to try it. If I let it sit overnight, > it sometimes will go ahead and start up the first time I try it the > next day. > > Any clues as to what might be causing this? > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be October 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be October 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
