I just rescued a blue g3 500 mhz 20 gig HD. It's working fine. The guy has a bunch more.. $50.00 ea. They are from a school. Lyle
Clark Martin wrote: > Peter Mc Court wrote: > >> Learned ones, >> >> I just rescued a Ruby iMac (G3, 400MHz, 36GB HD, CD drive, 256MB RAM, >> OS9.2.1, Firmware 4.1.9) from the Uni skip. She (Ruby) is fully >> functional, except that I need to use the power button on the box to >> start her up. >> >> None of the keyboard power buttons for my other 3 iMacs (similar >> vintage) can start Ruby up, but they all can shut her down. >> >> I see that Ruby's power button is sits more deeply in the bezel than on >> the other iMacs, so I guess she has been subject to some abuse. Is there >> an easy fix for this power button issue? I've read that one should avoid >> using the power button that sits on the iMac box. >> > > Don't believe everything you read (except this :). There is nothing > wrong with using the button on the computer to power the computer up. > It is not recommended to use it to turn the computer off, you should use > a controlled shut down instead. > > If the button works to initiate a shut down then the button is okay. > The difference is on power up the button sends a signal through the USB > connection to start the computer. This was a non-standard > implementation of USB and Apple eventually abandoned it. It's possible > the iMac is "new" enough that it doesn't implement the keyboard power > on, I don't know when things changed. > > Me, I wouldn't worry about it, just use the power button on the computer. > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple 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 imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to imaclist-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
