Do you hear a low volume yet high pitched whine from the old iMac? That's the
hard drive's spindle bearings on their last legs, could quit any time.
It's a sound more annoying and brain-penetrating than a dentist's drill, worse
because it's so quiet yet irritating and constant.
If you *had* been hearing that, but now it's stopped the noise along with no
longer booting, then it's almost certain a dead hard drive.
An up-side to having to replace the hard drive in an old CRT iMac is a new,
higher capacity, faster RPM drive with bigger cache will drastically speed the
old Mac up, especially the boot time. Apple went el-cheapo-cheap on the
original hard drives in the iMacs, yet now you can get a 40 or 80 gig for less
than what the original 4 to 10 gig drives cost.
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