I was given a few iMacs a while ago by a friend who didn't want any of
them because they were all somewhat problematic. I recently pulled them out
again (I was able to use one of them with the exception of CDROM for a
while). I was curious if anyone might have some clues to getting them to be
functional again, as they seem to be mostly OK except for a few quirks.
The first is a Bondi 233 that worked fine until another friend decided
to play around with it. Now it won't do anything but boot to the screen
with the Apple logo and the animation winds away indefinitely. I tried
booting from a CD (both OS 9 and X), but the machine just ignores it no
matter what I try. I am not sure if this machine ever had the firmware
updates (OF & CD) installed on it, either. Is this a normal occurrence, or
could the CD have gone bad? If I recall, it worked fine most of the time,
but occasionally it wouldn't show up at all when inserting a disc while in
MacOS.
The second machine is a Tangerine 233, so I'm not sure if it was a
FrankenMac or what. It runs fine, but needs an OS reload before I can part
with it. I think the CD-ROM might be bad, but I'm not sure exactly how to
even go about testing it or finding another one on the cheap. For that
matter, are the tray load CDROM's problematic? I have another Bondi without
a CDROM that boots to the question mark just fine.
The third is one of the infamous slot loader 350 machines. I think it
has some of the symptoms of the video OS X loading errors, but it is
inconclusive. There is no chime, but the system fires up and the light
turns green. One time when I tried booting it, it actually acted as if it
was loading the OS but still no chime or screen. I tried the sleep then
wake trick to see if it would wake up with even distorted video, but no
luck. Since it is a 350, there is no external video port which makes this
one quite tricky.
I figure it probably won't involve that much trouble getting these
machines running again, but I haven't done much iMac troubleshooting before
so I'd rather check with the experts than reinvent the wheel.
Thanks,
-Chris
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