That doesn't work. I unplugged them, carried them across the building, plugged them back in to a different outlet, and still nothing. Can I change the backup/pram batteries easily enough? I know the RTC batteries are dead because they didn't keep time correctly when they did power on.
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Dan <dantear...@gmail.com> wrote: > > At 10:21 AM -0600 2/12/2009, Carrie wrote: > >I have 2 tray-loading iMacs that have suddenly stopped powering on. > >When I press the power button, they do nothing--no noise, no click, > >nothing. The specs: > > > >iMac PPC G3 333 MHz > >Apple OS X 10.2.8 > > > >The are not running anything except the OS and a database client. > > > >Are they just plain dead? > > Given their age, perhaps their backup/pram batteries have died. You > can try resetting their PMU - unplug them for about a minute, plug > them back in, wait about 30 secs, then see if they'll boot. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth > > > > -- Carrie www.flowerkraut.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
