Re: Switching hard drive from one g3 imac to another

2015-05-23 Thread Colin Yarwood
Kay Did you sort your iMac problem? It came to my notice lately - I have a similar problem. The advice to replace the PRAM battery is the right advice! You can open the trap door with a coin (after switching off and laying the iMac on its face) and c arefully extract the little battery you

RE: Switching hard drive from one g3 imac to another

2014-11-16 Thread Brandon Nichols
The Hard drive is not the issue. If it was, the iMac would still power on. It just wouldn't boot past a blinking file folder with a question mark. Best of luck!! Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 10:10:05 -0800 From: kp8...@gmail.com To: imaclist@googlegroups.com Subject: Switching hard drive from one g3

Re: Switching hard drive from one g3 imac to another

2014-11-16 Thread Julia Brinckloe
Have you replaced the CMOS battery? Reasonably easy to remove from the motherboard and replace. Only a few bucks and I've revived many a dying iMac with nothing more. On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Brandon Nichols brandonnicho...@hotmail.com wrote: The Hard drive is not the issue. If it

RE: Switching hard drive from one g3 imac to another

2014-11-16 Thread Mark J. Doddy
I'd put the drive in a external hardrive case plug it into another computer and pull everything important off the drive. Then I'd start experimenting. Mark On Nov 16, 2014 11:36 AM, Brandon Nichols brandonnicho...@hotmail.com wrote: The Hard drive is not the issue. If it was, the iMac would