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Subject: Re: Dead iMac...kinda..

Author:
pete

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Date Posted: 07:57:05 06/07/04 Mon
In reply to: TheDragon 's message, "Dead iMac...kinda.." on 16:22:37 08/14/03 Thu

>I recently picked up an iMac on the side of the road.
>I live in a college town and it's moving time, so it's
>a good time to find free stuff. Luckily, I stumbled
>across this early model iMac (I'm assuming early as it
>only has a 6GB HDD and a 24x cd-rom. Anyway. It powers
>on, plays the boot sound. Shows no display, then
>clicks off.
>
> Once it does this, I have to let
>it sit for a bit unplugged before I can attempt to
>power it on again. I do not currently have keyboard or
>mouse for it. I've just been trying to power it on.
>Any ideas?

Well, you might borrow a keyboard and mouse.
The system checks for those (or at least the keyboard)
and won't go any farther.

Could possible be the powersupply, too. (kinda sounds like it)

Have fun!

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