Re: Is my iMac dying?

[Jim Norman]

Well "his" problem has just got worse. The hard drive has just died; 
this is going from bad to worse (sigh).  I pulled a 512Mb stick of 
Apple RAM out of my G4 Cube to see if the RAM or the amount of RAM was 
a problem.

I still got the checksum failure from the software restore disk, and 
when I tried the software install disk I had the HDD failure.

Life sucks, and then you die!
Computer fair coming up so it will be a matter of getting a suitable 
replacement HDD.  It's a Maxtor in the iMac, but Seagate and Western 
Digital seem more common at computer fairs - any recommendations?

Jim
On Tuesday, July 6, 2004, at 07:49 AM, Jason Cutler wrote:

On Monday, July 5, 2004 10:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
5/7/04 1:00 PM

I wondered if the RAM may have been the problem and so reseated it
after cleaning with electrical contact cleaning fluid and canned air 
-
no joy.

Perhaps it was the CD drive, so I did a swap with a known working
slot-load CD drive - still no joy.
I connected an external Firewire DVD drive and tried to start up
holding down the F key - still no joy.
Before I have apoplexy, is there something I'm forgetting about?  Any
suggestions greatly appreciated.
Jim

I think it would help if you could put at least another 64Mb of ram 
in it or
128Mb would even be better.

Georg W.
He never proved to us the original 64 wasn't faulty. He only reseaated 
it. Either that or it's the hard drive or lastly, logic board.

PS I wasn't aware that "F" made the machine boot from firewire!! I 
normally use "option" and just click on which device I want to boot 
from.


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